Mobile Religion on Ancestral Ground: Rituals of Christian Conversion in the Western Solomon Islands
Conversion to Christianity from an ancestral religion is often depicted as a move from a closed world of local spirits to a radically open world of a transcendent God. This article focuses on the Pacific Islands, one of the most thoroughly Christian parts of the world, where people themselves often...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2015]
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Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 309-329 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Salomoninseln
/ Ancestor cult
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Christianity
/ Ritual
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations CB Christian life; spirituality KBS Australia; Oceania RJ Mission; missiology |
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UNIVERSALISM (Theology)
B Pacific Islands B Christian missionaries B Ethnohistory B Religion B Christianity B Conversion B ancestral religion B Conversion to Christianity B Solomon Islands |
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