Abstract
Just as much history, or the past for that matter, requires a song, a covenant with God needs a story. Inevitably such a story plays with time as its key elements connect past, present and future in particular ways, often using ‘history’ to ‘fix everything’. This book explores a number of such histories and temporalities at play amongst a group of followers of a religious movement called the All Peoples Prayer Assembly (APPA) on the island of Malaita in Solomon Islands that have, invoking the Bible, entered a covenant with God for building a theocracy.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London ; New York |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Publication status | In preparation - Jul 2021 |
Keywords
- Anthropology
- theocracy
- Christianity
- Temporality
- mystery
- Pacific
- Melanesia
- Theology