Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific

XIII, 272 Pp. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-21723-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: International Studies in Religion and Society

Cultural expressions of Christianity show great diversity around the globe. While scholarship has tended to consider charismatic practices in distinct geographical contexts, this volume advances the anthropology of Christianity through ethnographically rich, comparative insights from across the Australia-Pacific region. Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific presents new perspectives on the performative dynamics of Christian belief, conflict, and renewal. Addressing experiences of cultural and spiritual renewal, contributors reveal how tensions can arise between spiritual and political expressions of culture and identity, opening up alternative spaces for spiritual realization and religious change. These local processes further mobilize responses of individuals and groups to state forces and political reforms, in turn, influencing the shape of translocal and transnational Christian practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Magowan, Fiona

Schwarz, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University. She has published widely on Aboriginal Christianity, music, emotion and ritual. Her books include Performing Gender, Place and Emotion: Global Perspectives (2013 ed. with L. Wrazen) and Melodies of Mourning (2007).

Carolyn Schwarz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Goucher College. She has published articles on wellbeing, Aboriginal identity, and religion and is the co-editor of a special issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2010) on Christianity in Aboriginal Australia.

Contributors are: Diane Austin-Broos, John Barker, Alison Dundon, Yannick Fer, Kirsty Gillespie, Jessica Hardin, Rodolfo Maggio, Fiona Magowan, Gwendoline Malogne-Fer, Debra McDougall, Joel Robbins, Carolyn Schwarz, and John Taylor.