RT Article
T1 Church presence and gender relations in the Wonenara valley (Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea)
JF The Australian journal of anthropology
VO 27
IS 2
SP 206
OP 225
A1 Bonnemère, Pascale
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1937585751
AB Since 1951, date of the First contact, the Baruya of the Wonenara valley have twice been a pioneering frontline for Protestant missions. First in the 1960s, when several Lutheran and SDA pastors moved in, and the second time at the beginning of the 2000s, when three ‘New Evangelical Churches’ settled in the valley. After presenting the history of the presence of these five Churches, I analyse the pastors’ ideas, as expressed during services or in informal discussions, about the place of women in daily life and in church, and about gender relations more generally. The observation of church services reveals a possibility of women speaking in public that was hitherto unknown. Moreover, the pastors’ origins (Baruya or non Baruya) seem to play a role in the way they talk about women during their services, whatever their Church may say.
K1 organisation of space
K1 gender relations
K1 Revival
K1 Evangelical Brotherhood Church
K1 Church of Christ
K1 SDA
K1 Lutheran Church
DO 10.1111/taja.12194