Christianity, conflict, and renewal in Australia and the Pacific

Product Description
Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific uncovers critical dilemmas that Christians face when they desire to renegotiate longstanding spiritual practices. It highlights the key role that Christianity plays in the Australia-Pacific region as a motivating force for spiritual, political, and economic renewal.
Review
"This ambitious, timely volume brings together thirteen leading and emerging scholars of the anthropology of Christianity in the Australia-Pacific region. [...] Individual chapters offer intriguing ethnographic case studies that convincingly demonstrate the significance of placing any debates on renewal projects in broader, local, regional, global, religious, social, economic, and political developments, practices and narratives."
Stephanie Hobbis, The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada,
Pacific Affairs Volume 90, No. 4
About the Author
Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University. She has published widely on Aboriginal Christianity, music, emotion and ritual. Her books include Performing Gender, Place and Emotion: Global Perspectives (2013 ed. with L. Wrazen) and Melodies of Mourning (2007).

Carolyn Schwarz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Goucher College. She has published articles on wellbeing, Aboriginal identity, and religion and is the co-editor of a special issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2010) on Christianity in Aboriginal Australia.

Contributors are: Diane Austin-Broos, John Barker, Alison Dundon, Yannick Fer, Kirsty Gillespie, Jessica Hardin, Rodolfo Maggio, Fiona Magowan, Gwendoline Malogne-Fer, Debra McDougall, Joel Robbins, Carolyn Schwarz, and John Taylor.