Fire on the Island : Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu, EPUB eBook

Fire on the Island : Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu EPUB

Part of the ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology series

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In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for the island’s future security. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems, but also carry risks of exacerbating the same problems they arise to address.

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