Fire on the Island : : Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu / / Tom Bratrud.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Bratrud, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Text --; Chronology: The Revival Process --; Maps --; Figure --; Introduction. Fear, Hope and Social Movements --; Chapter 1. Life and Death --; Chapter 2. Love and Land --; Chapter 3. The Revival Begins --; Chapter 4. Gender and Integrity --; Chapter 5. Spiritual War --; Chapter 6. Crises and Reconciliations --; Chapter 7. Hope, Blame and New Possibilities --; Conclusion --; Appendix: ‘Jesus, You Are My Helper’ --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800734654; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800734654
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tom Bratrud.

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.