TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomlinson,Matt
AU  - McDougall,Debra L.
TI  - Christian politics in Oceania
T2  - ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology
SN  - 9780857457455
AV  - BR115.P7 C245 2013eb
U1  - 261.70995 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Christian sects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Christentum
KW  - gnd
KW  - Mission
KW  - Sekte
KW  - Christianisme et politique
KW  - Océanie
KW  - Sectes chrétiennes
KW  - Ozeanien
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Christian politics in Oceania -- Mediating denominational disputes: land claims and the sound of Christian critique in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea -- "Heaven on Earth" or Satan's "base" in the Pacific?: Internal Christian politics in the dialogic construction of the Makiran Underground Army -- The generation of the now: denominational politics in Fijian Christianity -- Christian politics in Vanuatu: lay priests and new state forms -- Evangelical public culture: making stranger-citizens in Solomon Islands -- Anthropology and the politics of Christianity in Papua New Guinea -- Chiefs, church, and state in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands -- Why is there no political theology among the Urapmin?: on diarchy, sects as big as society, and the diversity of Pentecostal politics -- Afterword: Reflections on political theology in the Pacific
N2  - 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 i
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