Tradition and Christianity the Colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society

"Tradition and Christianity explores the way a Pacific Islands people, fiercely attached to the tradition of their ancestors, have transformed their society by changing their religion. Taking a perspective from the culture of the Kwaraae people of Malaita island, it traces a century of colonial history to show how and why they rejected the religion of their ancestral ghosts to become Christians. This is a story of resistance and compromise, from the 19th century labour trade through colonial subjugation and Christian conversion, to the anti-colonial Maasina Rul movement of the 1940s and the efforts of Kwaraae leaders ever since to regain their self determination by reaffirming traditional values under Christianity. Christianity has played a crucial part in the colonial transformation of the Pacific Islands. This book presents an unusually detailed local history to show how a fundamentalist mission contributed to the development of a distinctive indigenous Christianity with strong but ambivalent foundations in Kwaraae traditional culture. An anthropological study of a subject more familiar to missiologists and historians gives valuable new insights into the continuities and contradictions between traditional culture and Christianity in the contemporary Pacific."

"Tradition and christianity : the colonial transformation of Solomon Islands society"
"Tradition and Christianity the Colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society"
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"Tradition and christianity : the colonial transformation of a Solomon Island society"
"Tradition and christianity : the colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society"
"Tradition and Christianity : the colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society"@en
"Tradition and Christianity : the colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society"
"Tradition and Christianity : the Colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society"