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Christian Politics in Oceania
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction — Christian Politics in Oceania
- Chapter 1 — Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea
- Chapter 2 — "Heaven on Earth" or Satan's "Base" in the Pacific? Internal Christian Politics in the Dialogic Construction of the Makiran Underground Army
- Chapter 3 — The Generation of Now: Denominational Politics in Fijian Christianity
- Chapter 4 — Christian Politics in Vanuatu: Lay Priests and New State Forms
- Chapter 5 — Evangelical Public Culture: Making Stranger-Citizens in Solomon Islands
- Chapter 6 — Anthropology and the Politics of Christianity in Papua New Guinea
- Chapter 7 — Chiefs, Church, and State in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands
- Chapter 8 — 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
- Contributors
- Index