Priests on the shore: climate change and the Anglican Church of Melanesia

This paper argues that discourses of climate change in the Solomon Islands are being significantly shaped by legacies of Anglican conversion. To understand how climate change is made meaningful therefore means being attentive to the histories and geographies of conversion. Climate change in the Solomon Islands is not only a physical process but a negotiation between new material realities and a Christian cosmos. This paper demonstrates how climate change is made compatible with a Christian cosmos. It also shows how that cosmos is transformed in the process. In the Solomon Islands, this means being attentive to spaces such as shorelines, horizons, ships, names and churches