Browsing by Author "Macdonald, Fraser"

• Introduction: Religious rupture and revival in the Pacific 

  Macdonald, Fraser; Goldsmith, Michael (POLYNESIAN SOC INC, 2019-12-01)

  This special issue arose from a panel, “Political and Religious Conversions in the Pacific”, convened by Fraser Macdonald and Michael Goldsmith at the 2017 Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) annual conference held ...

  

• Magic: A Theory from the South, by Ernesto De Martino [Book Review] 

  Macdonald, Fraser (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  This article reviews the book: “Magic: A Theory from the South”, by Ernesto De Martino, translated and annotated by Dorothy Louise Zinn.

  

• Melanesia burning: Religious revolution in the Western Pacific 

  Macdonald, Fraser (POLYNESIAN SOC INC, 2019-12-01)

  In the history of Pacific Christianity, the explosion of revival activity within Melanesia during the 1970s remains an untold story. Within this regional spiritual upheaval, ecstatic Pentecostalist phenomena spread with ...

  

• Of Drums and Gods: 'Tradition' and Christianity in Oksapmin Church Soundscapes 

  Macdonald, Fraser (2017)

  Based on ethnography undertaken since 2008, this paper seeks to interrogate and probelmatise the relationship between aesthetic form and conceptual meaning within the mainly Baptist church services of the Oksapmin, a group ...

  

• Negotiated Identities: Christianity and Ethnicity in a Diasporic Cambodian Church 

  Watson, Peter (The University of Waikato, 2023)

  As a global religious movement, Christianity has throughout history come into conflict with the traditional cosmologies of those who choose to convert, drastically changing the ways in which people express their spirituality. ...

  

• Emerging evangelicals: An ethnographic study of a Christian community house in Tauranga, New Zealand 

  Liddle, Esther (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Contemporary global evangelical Christianity, as exemplified by the Emerging Church movement, is a phenomenon which has many established and emergent trends. This is a study of how the young Christian residents of the ...

  

• The potters of Espiritu Santo : A socio-historical study of survival and loss of tradition 

  Pascal, Elizabeth Marie (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This dissertation looks at the traditional pottery of the Cumberland Peninsula on the island of Espiritu Santo in the context of its relationships with its makers, their history, traditional institutions and contact ...

  

• Slain in the Spirit: Pentecostal-evangelical Christianity and the rise of witchcraft and sorcery-related violence in Melanesia 

  Hapi, Ahere (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  Within Melanesia, there has been a startling rise in new forms of brutal, dehumanizing, public violence directed towards accused witches and sorcerers in recent decades. This new suite of horrific practices departs radically ...

  

• A Sea of Voices: Deep sea mining and the Solwara 1 Project in Papua New Guinea 

  Phillips, Hayley (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  Deep sea mining is a new and increasingly important part of the capitalist exploitation of the world’s oceans. Situated off the coast of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, Solwara 1 is expected to become the world’s ...

  

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