Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Fiona Magowan ,
Carolyn Schwarz
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Edition: XIII, 272 Pp. ed.
Volume: 26
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.619kg
ISBN: 9789004217232
ISBN 10: 9004217231
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 21 April 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This ambitious, timely volume brings together thirteen leading and emerging scholars of the anthropology of Christianity in the Australia-Pacific region. [...] Individual chapters offer intriguing ethnographic case studies that convincingly demonstrate the significance of placing any debates on renewal projects in broader, local, regional, global, religious, social, economic, and political developments, practices and narratives."" Stephanie Hobbis, The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada, Pacific Affairs Volume 90, No. 4
This ambitious, timely volume brings together thirteen leading and emerging scholars of the anthropology of Christianity in the Australia-Pacific region. [...] Individual chapters offer intriguing ethnographic case studies that convincingly demonstrate the significance of placing any debates on renewal projects in broader, local, regional, global, religious, social, economic, and political developments, practices and narratives. Stephanie Hobbis, The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada, Pacific Affairs Volume 90, No. 4
Author Information
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.
