Christian Politics in Oceania (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, 2)
Christian Politics in Oceania (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, 2)
Matt Tomlinson,Debra L. McDougall
Subjects: Christianity and politics,Christian sects
Description
Description
The phrase "Christian politics" points in two directions: political relations between denominations in one direction, and ways that Christian churches contribute to debates about how society should be governed in the other. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji, the authors argue that Christianity and politics have redefined each other in much of Oceania in ways that make the two categories inseparable at any level of analysis. The individual chapters vividly illuminate the ways in which Christian politics operate across a wide scale from interpersonal relations to national and global interconnections.
The individual chapters are:
Introduction: Christian Politics in Oceania / Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall
1. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea / Courtney Handman
2. "Heaven on Earth" or Satan's "Base" in the Pacific?: Internal Christian Politics in the Dialogic Construction of the Makiran Underground Army / Michael W. Scott
3. The Generation of the Now: Denominational Politics in Fijian Christianity / Matt Tomlinson
4. Christian Politics in Vanuatu: Lay Priests and New State Forms / Annelin Eriksen
5. Evangelical Public Culture: Making Stranger-Citizens in Solomon Islands / Debra McDougall
6. Anthropology and the Politics of Christianity in Papua New Guinea / John Barker
7. Chiefs, Church, and State in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands / Geoffrey White
8. Why Is There No Political Theology among the Urapmin?: On Diarchy, Sects as Big as Society, and the Diversity of Pentecostal Politics / Joel Robbins
Afterword: Reflections on Political Theology in the Pacific / Webb Keane
The individual chapters are:
Introduction: Christian Politics in Oceania / Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall
1. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea / Courtney Handman
2. "Heaven on Earth" or Satan's "Base" in the Pacific?: Internal Christian Politics in the Dialogic Construction of the Makiran Underground Army / Michael W. Scott
3. The Generation of the Now: Denominational Politics in Fijian Christianity / Matt Tomlinson
4. Christian Politics in Vanuatu: Lay Priests and New State Forms / Annelin Eriksen
5. Evangelical Public Culture: Making Stranger-Citizens in Solomon Islands / Debra McDougall
6. Anthropology and the Politics of Christianity in Papua New Guinea / John Barker
7. Chiefs, Church, and State in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands / Geoffrey White
8. Why Is There No Political Theology among the Urapmin?: On Diarchy, Sects as Big as Society, and the Diversity of Pentecostal Politics / Joel Robbins
Afterword: Reflections on Political Theology in the Pacific / Webb Keane
Details
Details
Publisher/Supplier: Berghahn Books
Date Published: 2012-11-01
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0857457462
Language: en
Pages: 260
Length: 6 inches,Width: 0.63 inches,Height: 9 inches
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