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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barker, John,; Eriksen, Annelin,; Handman, Courtney,; Keane, Webb,; McDougall, Debra,; Robbins, Joel,; Scott, Michael W.,; Tomlinson, Matt,; White, Geoffrey,
• HerausgeberIn: McDougall, Debra,; Tomlinson, Matt,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857457455; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857457455
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Matt Tomlinson, Debra McDougall.

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.