Encounter of Religions in Papua New Guinea - Toward a Relationship between Christianity and Original Traditions
The text introduces Papua New Guinea as a region where an encounter of various cultural and religious traditions occurred in the last several centuries and which still happens today. Christianization has posed a significant cultural change that has taken place recently and at the same time as modern...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Horizons
Year: 2023, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-386 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BT Religions of Oceania CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBS Australia; Oceania NCF Sexual ethics RJ Mission; missiology |
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Modernization
B Papua New Guinea B original religions B Christianity B Syncretism B Transformation of traditions |
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| Summary: | The text introduces Papua New Guinea as a region where an encounter of various cultural and religious traditions occurred in the last several centuries and which still happens today. Christianization has posed a significant cultural change that has taken place recently and at the same time as modernization. Using examples from Papua New Guinea, the study demonstrates that although Christianity can dominate in a particular society, elements of original Indigenous religions can exist in parallel or can create a syncretic synthesis. The aim of the study is to analyze the types of this coexistence and to identify the factors of maintenance and transformation of Indigenous traditions as a result of Christianization as part of the process of globalization. The study is a contribution to the discussion on the forms of world Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2023.39 |