Christian politics

Ryan Schram
ANTH 3603: Melanesian worlds
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)
Week of May 10, 2021 (Week 10)

Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2700/2021/10

Main reading: Eriksen (2009b); Tomlinson (2013)

Other reading: Eriksen (2009a); Schram (2014)

References and further reading

Eriksen, Annelin. 2009a. “Healing the Nation: In Search of Unity Through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu.” Social Analysis 53 (1): 67–81. http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy2.library.usyd.edu.au/docview/206538289.

———. 2009b. “‘New Life’: Pentecostalism as Social Critique in Vanuatu.” Ethnos 74 (2): 175–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840902940476.

Schram, Ryan. 2014. “A New Government Breaks With The Past in The Papua New Guinea Parliament’s “Haus Tambaran”.” Material World: A Global Hub for Thinking about Things. February 9, 2014. http://www.materialworldblog.com/2014/02/a-new-government-breaks-with-the-past-in-the-papua-new-guinea-parliaments-haus-tambaran/.

Tomlinson, Matt. 2013. “The Generation of the Now: Denominational Politics in Fijian Christianity.” In Christian Politics in Oceania, edited by Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall, 78–102. New York: Berghahn Books.