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Seminar series
The State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Project
The Australian National University
SSGM Project/Anthropology seminar
DATE: 18 November 1998
TIME: 3-5 pm
VENUE: HRC Reading Room, top floor, AD Hope Building, Australian National
University
Israel, America, and the Ancestors: Spiritual Warfare in a Pentecostal Denomination in Solomon Islands
by
Jolene Stritecky
PhD student in Anthropology,
University of Iowa; currently doing fieldwork in fringe settlements in Honiara.
Abstract:
'Spiritual Warfare' is central to the teaching and practice of the Christian Outreach Centre (COC), a Pentecostal denomination in Solomon Islands. COC battle rhetoric consistently compares Christian believers to two military powers - the Biblical nation of Israel, and the United States Armed Forces. Reference to kastom warfare is significant in its absence. This paper pursues two objectives in analyzing COC war motifs: to understand how believers target 'conflict' on community and global levels; to understand how they situate themselves as Christian Solomon Islanders among nations and histories.