Marists, Marian devotion, and the quest for sovereignty in Bougainville
Christianity and politics seem to be intrinsically linked. In Central Bougainville, which is part of the autonomous region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Catholic faith introduced by Marist missionaries has been instrumental in building a national Bougainville identity and sustaining...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2018
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Social sciences and missions
Год: 2018, Том: 31, Выпуск: 1/2, Страницы: 130-161 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Catholicisme
politique
nationalisme
terre
missionnaires maristes
B Catholicism politics nationalism land Marist missionaries |
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| Итог: | Christianity and politics seem to be intrinsically linked. In Central Bougainville, which is part of the autonomous region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Catholic faith introduced by Marist missionaries has been instrumental in building a national Bougainville identity and sustaining the political struggle for sovereignty. Although the first missionaries were often cautious not to disrupt socio-political organisations, Marists have been advocating both local and Marist political interests and views in the continuously shifting religious, and socio-economical political context of colonial and “post”-colonial Bougainville. This article follows the early Catholic missionaries to Bougainville, elucidating dialectics, tensions and politics of conversion. Moreover, it shows how devotion to Mary became entangled with a particular representation of Bougainville land as Holy, and the engendering of an ethnic-religious nationalism in the context of a ten-year-long devastating conflict and struggle for sovereignty. |
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| Объем: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| Второстепенные работы: | In: Social sciences and missions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-03101012 |
