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God Is Samoan

Author : Matt Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880978
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book God Is Samoan written by Matt Tomlinson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of “contextual theologians,” exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues. Employing both scholarly research and ethnographic fieldwork, the author addresses a range of topics: from radical criticisms of biblical stories as inappropriate for Pacific audiences to celebrations of traditional gods such as Tagaloa as inherently Christian figures. This book presents a symphony of voices—engaged, critical, prophetic—from the contemporary Pacific’s leading religious thinkers and suggests how their work articulates with broad social transformations in the region. Each chapter in this book focuses on a distinct type of culturally driven theological dialogue. One type is between readers and texts, in which biblical scholars suggest new ways of reading, and even rewriting, the Bible so it becomes more meaningful in local terms. A second kind concerns the state of the church and society. For example, feminist theologians and those calling for “prophetic” action on social problems propose new conversations about how people in Oceania should navigate difficult times. A third kind of discussion revolves around identity, emphasizing what makes Oceania unique and culturally coherent. A fourth addresses the problems of climate change and environmental degradation to sacred lands by encouraging “eco-theological” awareness and interconnection. Finally, many contextual theologians engage with the work of other disciplines— prominently, anthropology—as they develop new discourse on God, people, and the future of Oceania. Contextual theology allows people in Oceania to speak with God and fellow humans through the idiom of culture in a distinctly Pacific way. Tomlinson concludes, however, that the most fruitful topic of dialogue might not be culture, but rather the nature of dialogue itself. Written in an accessible, engaging style and presenting innovative findings, this book will interest students and scholars of anthropology, world religion, theology, globalization, and Pacific studies.

God Is Samoan

Author : Matt Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824883160
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Building the Kingdom in Samoa 1888-2005

Author : R. Carl Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977128501
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Building the Kingdom in Samoa 1888-2005 written by R. Carl Harris and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Personal Narratives and Images Portraying Latter-Day Saints' Expiriences In the Samoan Islands

Theorizing Self in Samoa

Author : Jeannette Marie Mageo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472085187
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Self in Samoa written by Jeannette Marie Mageo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Jeannette Marie Mageo develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa--which provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, and uncovers ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives. Photos.

Margaret Mead and Samoa

Author : Derek Freeman
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140225556
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead and Samoa written by Derek Freeman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.

Weavings

Author : Lydia Johnson
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203471
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Weavings written by Lydia Johnson and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the first time, women's theological reflections from South Pacific nations have been gathered together in a published volume. This historic achievement represents the collective vision, will, energy, and commitment of women representing a broad cross-section of Pacific Islands ethnic and church communities. This work is not a publication merely for women, but it is a valuable ground-breaking contribution to the development of theology in Oceania and a gift to the churches of the Pacific and the worldwide church. It will be required reading the theological studentsm pastors, and laity across the region. The book has much to offer to the fields of women's and feminist theologies, contextual and non-western theologies, and to all in the worldwide church family who are open to hearing and learning from their sisters in this part of the world."--Back cover.

My First Tongan Bible Stories with English Translations

Author : Mary Aflague
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546453086
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book My First Tongan Bible Stories with English Translations written by Mary Aflague and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My First Tongan Children's Bible is a simple, yet vividly illustrated bilingual book that teaches kids Bible stories in Tongan and English. Find out how characters in the Bible come to trust God in different situations and learn about it in the Tongan language." Enjoy the first ever Tongan Children's Bible from our unique collection. From the more popular selected Bible stories to the brightly colorful illustrations and the Tongan translations, there is surely much to gain from your child's reading experience. This title is a great Christian gift that is spiritual, educational, and cultural.

Progress and Developments of the Churches in the Samoan Islands: Early 21St Century

Author : Fuimaono Fini Aitaoto
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489735860
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Progress and Developments of the Churches in the Samoan Islands: Early 21St Century written by Fuimaono Fini Aitaoto and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re interested in Church-related events on the American Samoan islands during the early twenty-first century, then you need this book. Following up on his first book on the history of the Assemblies of God Church in American Samoa, author Fuimaono Fini Aitaoto delves deeper into church life on these South Pacific islands. Geared for Bible college students, pastors, and researchers, he answers questions such as: • What role has Christianity played in the lives of most Samoans? • What notable changes have recently occurred within American Samoa’s churches? • What is the financial condition of various churches? • What role does politics play in church life? While there is ample literature on the history and developments of churches in American Samoa and the Pacific from the late 1800s to the 1980s, there are not nearly as many resources updating the world on new church developments. This book fills that void.

Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before

Author : George Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before written by George Turner and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sāmoan Queer Lives

Author : Yuki Kihara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877484278
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Sāmoan Queer Lives written by Yuki Kihara and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samoan Queer Lives is a collection of personal stories from one of the world's unique indigenous queer cultures. The first of its kind, this book features a collection of autobiographical pieces by fa`afafine, transgender, and queer people of Sāmoa, one of the original continuous indigenous queer cultures of Polynesia and the Pacific Islands. -- http://www.littleisland.co.nz.

Whispers and Vanities

Author : Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1775501833
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Whispers and Vanities written by Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven critique, from within and outside Samoa, of aspects of Samoa’s religious and cultural values.

Nafanua

Author : Paul Alan Cox
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780716735632
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Nafanua written by Paul Alan Cox and published by W H Freeman & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Cox describes his research and adventures in Samoa, work that led to him being hailed by TIME magazine as a hero of medicine and awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Working closely with the native healers, Cox studied traditional rainforest remedies and is credited with finding natural drugs that can be used in treating AIDS, discovering a rare species of flying fox, launching an international campaign to save a 30,000-acre rainforest and helping to rebuild a village destroyed by a hurricane. Cox's respect for the traditional villagers and his excitement and perseverance make Nafunua a story of scientific and personal discovery.

From Samoa with Love?

Author : Peter Hempenstall
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783777422398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book From Samoa with Love? written by Peter Hempenstall and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du site de l'éd.: The displays were presented in amusement parks, zoological gardens and even at Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival. The viewers could travel "around the world for fifty Pfennig" and experience "typical" Samoan culture in the form of dances, music and weapon performances. This shaped the ways in which people saw (and continue to see) foreign cultures. This beautifully illustrated volume also explores the echoes of the Völkerschauen to be found in works of art created during the German Empire, including by the Brücke (Bridge) artists based in Dresden and Erich Heckel's drypoint Samoanischer Tanz (Samoan Dance), 1910; and traces German and Samoan interests.

Asia Pacific Pentecostalism

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004396705
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Asia Pacific Pentecostalism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia Pacific Pentecostalism, edited by Denise A. Austin, Jacqueline Grey, and Paul W. Lewis, yields previously untold stories and interdisciplinary analysis of pioneer foundations, denominational growth, leadership training, contextualisation, and community development across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.

Say it in Samoan

Author : Ulrike Mosel
Publisher : Better English Language Teaching
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Say it in Samoan written by Ulrike Mosel and published by Better English Language Teaching. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God Says No

Author : James Hannaham
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802196306
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book God Says No written by James Hannaham and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lambda Award Finalist: a black gay man struggles with his marriage, faith, and desires in this “tender, funny tour of a mind struggling to do the right thing” (Steve Martin). Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family. But a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can’t. A Stonewall Book Award Pick 2010 Finalist for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction “A revelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world.” —Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl and Born Standing Up

A Samoan Reading of Discipleship in Matthew

Author : Vaitusi Nofoaiga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780884142638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book A Samoan Reading of Discipleship in Matthew written by Vaitusi Nofoaiga and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional understanding of discipleship in many Christian communities considers church needs and demands to be more important than family duties and responsibilities. To be a disciple requires one to abandon family and follow Jesus into (as if to colonize) the world. Public criticism of this understanding is emerging from Samoans who also question the relevance of traditional Christian teachings. When pondered with regard to people (patrons) and institutons (church), discipleship becomes an exercise in and an expression of power. Under the influence of the Samoan tautua (servant), for whom the needs of family and local people are foremost, and approaches in biblical criticism that affirm locatedness of readers, this book offers an alternative understanding of discipleship. Discipleship is also about place, which might be in-between spaces. Nofoaiga in this book offers tautuaileva (service in-between spaces) readings of Matthew 4:12-25 and 7:24-8:22 that emphasize place (Galilee) as well as the marginalized and excluded (the crowd).