Full Description
This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures announced in prophecy, the volume reveals previously unexplored ways in which Christians work with concepts of time and its articulation with divinity, subjectivity, agency, and personal, social, and political change. By developing Coleman's argument about "historiopraxy" in novel directions, contributors provide new understandings of religious temporalities and the ritual articulation of immanence and transcendence. While building upon previous scholarly work in the anthropology of Christianity, this volume pushes the debate further and provides original insights into how religion is mobilised to shape and transform people's pasts, presents and futures.
Contents
Introduction: Living between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed - Simon Coleman, Anna-Karina Hermkens, and Matt Tomlinson.- 2. When Historiopraxy Becomes Heritage - Simon Coleman.- 3. Competing Temporalities in a Fijian Pentecostal Church - Karen J. Brison.- 4. The Labour of History: Kerewo Christianity, Frustrated Modernity, and Historical Consciousness - Dario Di Rosa.- 5. Divine Control Read Backwards: How Zimbabwe's New Calvinists Narrate God's Plans - Leanne Williams Green.- 6. Sacred Drama and Temporal Tapestries: Invoking the Divine by Performing the Past in Contemplative Christianity - Paula Pryce.- 7. Fátima and the Referendum: Pilgrimage as Temporal Work in Bougainville Politics - Anna-Karina Hermkens.- 8. The Trouble with Christian Time: Thinking in Jewish - Joyce Dalsheim.- 9. Asmat Horizons of the Past - Jaap Timmer.- 10. Epilogue: Crafting Time - David Morgan.
