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The Phrase Christian Politics Points In Two Directions: Political Relations Between Denominations In One Direction, And Ways That Christian Churches Contribute To Debates About How Society Should Be Governed In The Other. 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. Machine-generated Contents Note: Chapter 1. Christian Politics In Oceania / Matt Tomlinson And Debra Mcdougall -- Chapter 2. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims And The Sound Of Christian Critique In The Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea / Courtney Handman -- Chapter 3. Heaven On Earth Or Satan's Base In The Pacific?: Internal Christian Politics In The D

Author
Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall
Publisher
New York: Berghahn Books
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780857457462
Subjects
Religion, Christian, Political Science

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