When people have a vision they are very disobedient. A Solomon Islands case study for the anthropology of Christian ontologies
- Submitting institution
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
: A - 22A: Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A: Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 16192522
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Individualisierung durch christliche Mission?
- Publisher
- Harrassowitz Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783447101417
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- To clarify our thinking about Christianity and individualism, this chapter involves two analytical components: i) that anthropologists who theorize a primary logical trajectory within Christianity towards individualization already thereby posit a nexus between Christian ontology and practice, and ii) an analysis of a conflict within the Anglican Church of Melanesia as evidence that is at odds with this monological view. This conflict provides access to the practical dynamics of a very different Christian model of personhood—a ‘participatory’ model which serves to indicate future directions for the anthropological study of still other models and their historical interactions.
