Cultural Hybridity in Conversion: An Examination of Hapkas Christology as Resistance and Innovation in Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain

This essay analyzes Christian witness, applying a post-colonial lens to Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain to account for conversion and transformation in Papua New Guinea. A hapkas (half-caste) Christology of indigenous agency, communal transformation and hybridity is examined in dialogue with N...

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Autor principal: Taylor, Steve 1968- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Brill [2019]
En: Mission studies
Año: 2019, Volumen: 36, Número: 3, Páginas: 416-441
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Modjeska, Drusilla 1946-, The mountain / Papua-Neuguinea / Cristianismo / Conversión (Religión) / Identidad religiosa / Interculturalidad
Clasificaciones IxTheo:CD Cristianismo ; Cultura
CH Cristianismo y sociedad
KBM Asia
RJ Misión
Otras palabras clave:B Genealogy
B Christology
B Indigenous
B Post-colonial
B Drusilla Modjeska
B Ancestor
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Sumario:This essay analyzes Christian witness, applying a post-colonial lens to Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain to account for conversion and transformation in Papua New Guinea. A hapkas (half-caste) Christology of indigenous agency, communal transformation and hybridity is examined in dialogue with New Testament themes of genealogy, redemption as gift and Jesus as the new Adam. Jesus as "good man true" is placed in critical dialogue with masculine identity tropes in Melanesian anthropology. Jesus as ancestor gift of Canaanite descent is located in relation to scholarship that respects indigenous cultures as Old Testament and post-colonial theologies of revelation which affirm cultural hybridity and indigenous innovation in conversion across cultures. This hapkas Christology demonstrates how a received message of Christian mission is transformed in a crossing of cultures.
ISSN:1573-3831
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Mission studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341677