Emplacement and Millennial Expectations in an Era of Development and Globalization: Heaven and the Appeal of Christianity for the Ipili Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • Non‐Western Christianity engages with capitalist development and ideas of modernization from multiple and competing perspectives. In this article, I argue that as researchers we can weave together disparate theoretical strands attempting to explain the appeal of Christianity—particularly its Pentecostal and charismatic forms—by examining indigenous notions of “salvation” that have often been overlooked in the literature. To illustrate, I examine millennial Christianity among the Ipili of Papua New Guinea, demonstrating how their understandings of “heaven” and their desire for the Second Coming articulate with a concern regarding how social relations are spatialized through engagement with capitalist mining development, evangelical Christianity, and traditional spirits responsible for maintaining the world's integrity.

publication date

  • December 1, 2005

Date in CU Experts

  • December 7, 2017 1:20 AM

Full Author List

  • JACKA JK

author count

  • 1

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0002-7294

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1548-1433

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 643

end page

  • 653

volume

  • 107

issue

  • 4