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Mullane, Thomas James.

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Spiritual warfare and social transformation in Fiji: The life history of Loto Fiafia of Kioa.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spiritual warfare and social transformation in Fiji: The life history of Loto Fiafia of Kioa./
Author:	Mullane, Thomas James.
Description:	343 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3355.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3104752
ISBN:	0496523196

Spiritual warfare and social transformation in Fiji: The life history of Loto Fiafia of Kioa.
Mullane, Thomas James.

Spiritual warfare and social transformation in Fiji: The life history of Loto Fiafia of Kioa. - 343 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3355.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2003.

This dissertation in cultural anthropology examines the impact of the evangelical discourse of spiritual warfare on social reproduction in a Tuvaluan-speaking community on the island of Kioa in Fiji. Since the 1980s, evangelical activism has spread rapidly in Oceania. This development, however, appears to be adversely affecting the social solidarity of groups of subsistence producing villagers who live on land which they themselves own. Ernst (1994) shows how the evangelical movement in Fiji has divided families and villages, and concludes that the movement constitutes a calculated plan of cultural liquidation. More recently, Stewart and Strathern (2001) point out that the new evangelical identities seem to generate "schismatic conflict" among villagers whose communities are already destabilized by the effects of globalization. The question that emerges from research on the evangelical movement in Oceania is: how it is possible for a discourse---spiritual warfare---which is clearly antagonistic toward local cultures, to penetrate so easily into local projects of social change?

ISBN: 0496523196Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Spiritual warfare and social transformation in Fiji: The life history of Loto Fiafia of Kioa.
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520 $a This research focuses on the case of Loto Fiafia, a self-described ordinary villager on Kioa. In 1997, Fiafia, whose life history is the ethnographic centerpiece of the research, established an independent church based on evangelical doctrines from the United States. The move, which marked a major break from the Tuvaluan cultural pattern of religious consensus, was motivated by newly fomented fears that leaders of the village church were following the "path of evil" and undermining the prosperity of the community and the safety of his children. This research situates Fiafia's life history and his project of church formation in relation to local, national, and global historical trends. It looks specifically at the impact of the Fiji 1998 Spiritual Warfare Conference on Fiafia, and analyzes the conjuncture of his worldview with the "biblical worldview" promoted in evangelical texts distributed at this conference. The findings of the research suggest that the discursive campaign of spiritual warfare is best understood as a strategy of symbolic violence which serves the interests of American capitalism by dividing villages and disabling the possibility of sophisticated political resistance based on a common front.
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