Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu
Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu

Author: Annelin Eriksen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-14

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780367882488

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Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change. Based on extensive research conducted over several decades, it is one of the few books available to focus on Vanuatu and on the impact of Christianity in Melanesia more generally - as well as on the significance of gender relations in understanding these developments. Providing a model for understanding and comparing processes of change in small-scale societies, this fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the ethnography of Melanesia and in issues related to contemporary cultural change and gender more generally.

Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu
Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu

Author: Ms Annelin Eriksen

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1409491110

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Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change. Based on extensive research conducted over several decades, it is one of the few books available to focus on Vanuatu and on the impact of Christianity in Melanesia more generally – as well as on the significance of gender relations in understanding these developments. Providing a model for understanding and comparing processes of change in small-scale societies, this fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the ethnography of Melanesia and in issues related to contemporary cultural change and gender more generally.

Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu
Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu

Author: Annelin Eriksen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317130030

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Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change. Based on extensive research conducted over several decades, it is one of the few books available to focus on Vanuatu and on the impact of Christianity in Melanesia more generally - as well as on the significance of gender relations in understanding these developments. Providing a model for understanding and comparing processes of change in small-scale societies, this fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the ethnography of Melanesia and in issues related to contemporary cultural change and gender more generally.

Women of the Place
Women of the Place

Author: Margaret Jolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1134352263

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Women of the Place is a study of gender relations in the kastom communities of South Pentecost, Vanuatu. It considers kastom in these communities not as an eternal tradition, but rather as a way of life, an identity in relation, and in resistance to the forces of European development. The way in which Christian missions, the labour trade, and the development of Western political institutions had a divergent impact on women and men is explored. The relations between persons and things is highlighted in an examination of the myths and rituals of the life-cycle and of grade-taking. The significance of this ritual is located in the context of colonial history, particularly the impact of pacification on men. Finally, the book considers more generally kastom and gender in the post-colonial state.

Christian Politics in Oceania
Christian Politics in Oceania

Author: Matt Tomlinson

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0857457462

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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.

The Globalization of Motherhood
The Globalization of Motherhood

Author: Wendy Chavkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1136962891

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Brings together research from the Global North and the Global South to illuminate how contemporary motherhood is changed by the processes of globalization.

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Author: Knut Rio

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-29

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 3319560689

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This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.

Cultural Keywords in Discourse
Cultural Keywords in Discourse

Author: Carsten Levisen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 902726547X

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Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book contributes to a global turn in cultural keyword studies by exploring keywords from discourse communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Melanesia, Mexico and Scandinavia. Providing new case studies, the volume showcases the diversity of ways in which cultural logics form and shape discourse. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach is used as a unifying framework for the studies. This approach offers an attractive methodology for doing explorative discourse analysis on emic and culturally-sensitive grounds. Cultural Keywords in Discourse will be of interest to researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, cultural discourse studies, linguistic ethnography and intercultural communication.

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission
Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Author: Martha Frederiks

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9004399585

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This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.