Most of Pacific Island societies today enjoy a relatively peaceful religious climate. Nevertheless, the history of Christianization in this region was not simply a step from "darkness" into "light" but rather an ambivalent process: the relationships between mission, colonization and local power struggles generated both violent conflicts, a relative pacification of social life under the authority of new Christian chiefs and an eradication of ritual violence. Even today, some tension and uncertainty remain around the role of religion in contemporary sources of conflicts and violence. This chapter focuses on: - the challenges raised by the management of religious and ethnic pluralism in the Pacific Island societies; - the capacity of religious...
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This special issue arose from a panel, “Political and Religious Conversions in the Pacific”, convene...
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The thesis inquires into the role of the Christian Churches in the ethnic and communal conflicts of ...
Faith has been a central feature of West Papuan resistance to Indonesian colonialism. Missionised in...
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Identifying the root cause of this religious-nuanced conflict is a difficult task. From some Indones...
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In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious tradition...
The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the diversity of Pacific Christianity, through...
This thesis argues that colonial memories and experiences of indigenous Mäòhi Christians are the pri...
This article analyses the logic of (de)territorialisation at work in Protestant churches and movemen...
With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fer...
International audienceThe rise of Pentecostal-charismatic movements in Polynesia today is opening up...
This thesis examines how the New Zealand state (e.g. government ministries and departments, governme...
This special issue arose from a panel, “Political and Religious Conversions in the Pacific”, convene...
In Southeast Asia and the Pacific, as in the rest of the world, it is undeniable that women form the...
This report is available in both English and SamoanDomestic violence is a serious social problem in ...
The thesis inquires into the role of the Christian Churches in the ethnic and communal conflicts of ...
Faith has been a central feature of West Papuan resistance to Indonesian colonialism. Missionised in...
Drawing on a rich body of multimethod field research, this book examines the ways in which Indonesia...
Identifying the root cause of this religious-nuanced conflict is a difficult task. From some Indones...
Marital violence has been described as endemic in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and it is striking that the...
In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious tradition...
The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the diversity of Pacific Christianity, through...
This thesis argues that colonial memories and experiences of indigenous Mäòhi Christians are the pri...
This article analyses the logic of (de)territorialisation at work in Protestant churches and movemen...
With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fer...
International audienceThe rise of Pentecostal-charismatic movements in Polynesia today is opening up...