Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på emneord "Christianity"
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The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08)Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a ... -
Negotiating World Views: Christian Koyas and their Environment
(Master thesis, 2007)The thesis centres around a number of conversion stories that were related to me by Christian Koyas, most of them newly converted. While primarily attempting to understand their motivations for turning to Christianity, the ... -
The Perfect Christian. An analysis of paradoxical aspects of charismatic christianity in the U.S.
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To Be in the World But Not of It: American Evangelicals and the Dilemmas of Being Christian in a Secular World
(Master thesis, 2009-06-22)In this thesis I explore how evangelical Christians in two different churches in the US relate to the society they live in, which they regard as secular. I will give insight to their narratives on how they see their lives ... -
The virtuous woman and the holy nation: Femininity in the context of Pentecostal Christianity in Vanuatu
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08)In this paper I connect an anthropology of Christianity to an anthropology of the body and an anthropology of the nation. I try to achieve this by looking at changing notions of femininity in the Pentecostal context of ...