Changing Christianity in Oceania: a Regional Overview

Ernst, M.

doi:10.4000/assr.23613

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“…This is the standard metanarrative in which this kind of situation is usually placed (e.g. Ernst ). Indeed, Pentecostals, Methodists and Catholics often come together as a congregation to do tapwalolo in other contexts, yet worship separately on Sundays.…”

Section: Methodist Tapwalolomentioning

confidence: 99%

One mind: Enacting the Christian congregation among the Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea

Schram

2013

Australian J of Anthropology

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This article examines the relationship between Christian worship and the production of religious identity among Auhelawa speakers of Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea. Auhelawa people live in a society in which a locally developed form of Christianity has emerged from a long engagement with missionaries. In the colonial era, missionaries spoke in terms of light and darkness to mediate their contradictory aims of both authentic personal conversion and total social change. Today Auhelawa believe that their society has been changed, and that this change entails a new way of thinking as well as acting, though like the missionaries they also struggle to express the relationship between the two. Viewing themselves as already converted, Auhelawa today use an ideology of ‘one mind’—unity in purpose which is subjectively felt and outwardly expressed—to resolve how their collective worship relates to individual belief. This framing of ritual, embedded in church prayer and music, however, is always incomplete. I argue this not only points to an important step in the process of formation of congregations, but also suggests why Christianity globally is both unitary yet also so strikingly diverse.

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Section: Methodist Tapwalolomentioning

confidence: 99%

One mind: Enacting the Christian congregation among the Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea

Schram

2013

Australian J of Anthropology

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“…While the reach of the state may trickle down into Pacific communities through laws, public services and well-being policies, the Pacific communities' everyday cultural sphere is dominated by the complex interplay between kinship networks, use of communal capital for daily survival and the Church. Although, foreign in origin, the Church has been adapted as an agency of communal capital to provide both institutional organisation and ideological norms for communal identity (Manfred 2012;Newland 2009). Church leaders have been the voice of comfort and their leadership crucial.…”

Section: Social Impact Of Covid-19 On Pacific Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated social protection and COVID-19: rethinking Pacific community responses in Aotearoa

Ratuva

Crichton-Hill

Ross

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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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“…An examination of Catholic Christianities provides an apt opportunity to restore balance to this debate. Indeed, despite ‘the wildfire spread of Protestant evangelical and Pentecostal forms of Christianity’ (Mayblin et al, 2017, p. 4), Catholicism and the Catholic Church continue to influence the lives of many Christians globally and particularly in the Pacific (Ernst, 2012). ‘One of the curious things about Catholicism’, Mayblin et al (2017, p. 5) note in their introduction to The Anthropology of Catholicism , ‘is its endurance in the face of crisis’.…”

Section: Catholicism Continuity and Endurancementioning

confidence: 99%