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Christian Politics in Oceania / ed. by Matt Tomlinson, Debra McDougall.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857457462
  • 9780857457455
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  • 261.70995
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Christian Politics in Oceania -- 1 Mediating Denominational Disputes -- 2 “Heaven on Earth” or Satan’s “Base” in the Pacific? -- 3 The Generation of the Now -- 4 Christian Politics in Vanuatu -- 5 Evangelical Public Culture -- 6 Anthropology and the Politics of Christianity in Papua New Guinea -- 7 Chiefs, Church, and State in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands -- 8 Why Is There No Political Theology among the Urapmin? -- Afterword: Reflections on Political Theology in the Pacific -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: The phrase “Christian politics” evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Christian Politics in Oceania -- 1 Mediating Denominational Disputes -- 2 “Heaven on Earth” or Satan’s “Base” in the Pacific? -- 3 The Generation of the Now -- 4 Christian Politics in Vanuatu -- 5 Evangelical Public Culture -- 6 Anthropology and the Politics of Christianity in Papua New Guinea -- 7 Chiefs, Church, and State in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands -- 8 Why Is There No Political Theology among the Urapmin? -- Afterword: Reflections on Political Theology in the Pacific -- Contributors -- Index

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The phrase “Christian politics” evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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