Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities

MacDonald, Fraser; Falck, Christiane

doi:10.1111/taja.12365

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“…The Australian Journal of Anthropology ( TAJA ) is a fitting home for it as the journal has facilitated some of the major contributions to the discussion about rupture in the anthropology of Christianity in the last decade, as well as efforts to bring anthropology into conversation with theology. A special issue edited by Macdonald and Falck (2020) pushed the envelope of the discussion on discontinuity, calling for ‘more nuanced approaches’ for grasping ‘the complex dialectics between culture and Christianity at work’ (2020, p. 134). The specific regional focus of that collection was on ethnotheologies in Pacific Christian cultures, including Catholic ones.…”

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Introduction: From rupture to repair

Richman

Lemons

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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Introduction: From rupture to repair

Richman

Lemons

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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“…All of these observations have generated a flurry of activity for almost two decades on the nature of conversion, change and time in the anthropology of Christianity, scholarship which seeks to qualify, challenge, review or extend this conversation about rupture in different directions (e.g., Bialecki & Daswani, 2015; Chua, 2012; Coleman, 2010; Fountain, 2013; Lampe, 2010; Macdonald & Falck, 2020; McDougall, 2020). I do not have the space to survey all these fruitful studies here; instead I will briefly mention the ideas of just a few that I hope to pick up on and develop in the rest of this article.…”

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After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism

Richman

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re-narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history after their attempts to break with the past. This discursive project works to insert a notion of 'Black Africa' into an authentically Christian historical chronology that stretches far back into the biblical past and forward to the eschaton. In this way, Africa's unique spiritual character is seen as reflected not only in its reasserted claim to Christian history, but also in its eschatologically driven destiny to re-evangelise the world. This tells us something about the theological way these Christians reframe their role in history, including how their understanding of a collective past shapes their vision of who they are in the present and will be in the future. In this article, I argue that more attention needs to be given to processes of repair, repositioning and realignment in discussions about how conversion to Pentecostalism can generate efforts to break away from what becomes conceptualised as 'the past'.

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