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Christian politics in Oceania /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tomlinson, Matt, 1970- (Editor ), McDougall, Debra L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.