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This book makes space (1) for Pasifika contributions to academic conversations on critical topics and (2) for influencing the conversations to account for, and thus reflect, Pasifika ways and modes. The critical topic that runs through the chapters is well-being, and the contributors were located at the time of writing in Pasifika--Aotearoa, Fiji, Kioa, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu--but there are many more Pasifika voices and concerns than are represented in this work. Nonetheless, the ways in which this work seeks to influence the conversations on well-being reflect the intersectional modes of thinking that native Pasifika Islanders share. The essays are placed into three intersecting clusters: well-being of bodies and (is)lands, well-being of traditions and theologies, and well-being of imaginations and worldviews. The rationale for this arrangement is that the well-being of Pasifika requires attention to the present (bodies and islands), to the past (traditions and theologies), and to the future (imaginations and worldviews). The chapters address Pasifika questions and concerns, and they are placed so that the conversations they spark can take place--free of the traps of Western theories and disciplines--with Pasifika accents and rhythms.

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"""From the global margins, islands scattered across the Pacific, voices often ignored are heard crying for well-being. Jione Havea assembles scholars rooted in an indigenous intersectional worldview which connects sound theology with sound bodies and a sound environment, thus challenging the Eurocentric, anthropocentric worldview responsible for so much of the world's (dis)ease. We--the reader--are invited to a Pasifika table to feast on and learn from the wisdom that undergirds the well-being of bodies and islands, traditions and theologies, imaginations and worldviews."" --Miguel A. De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latinx studies, Iliff School of Theology ""Jione Havea, island theologian by heart and vocation, floats to us the waves of Pasifika theology by his fellow travelers from the archipelago. Their mode of storytelling theology and their plea for ecojustice shakes traditional academic theologies to the ground."" --Volker K�ster, author of The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Christology"

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Jione Havea is a co-parent for a polycultural daughter, a native pastor (in the Methodist Church in Tonga), and a senior research fellow with Trinity Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and the Centre for Research, Ethics, and Society (Charles Sturt University, Australia).

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