Speaking to debates about the management of difference in and between towns and villages as well as secondary conversions and breakaway movements in Melanesia, this article examines the efforts of an Anglican village church to maintain social cohesion through politico-religious unity in Gwou’ulu, a multi-clan village in North Malaita, Solomon Islands, and its urban enclaves in Honiara. It focuses on an Anglican “rescue mission” that Gwou’ulu sends annually to Honiara to remind their urban relatives about the values, interests and priorities of their ancestral Anglican home. An analysis of this “rescue mission” and the controversies that surround it reveals an ongoing struggle between villagers for the politico-religious future of the village within and beyond its immediate geographic boundaries. Gwou’ulu villagers are increasingly questioning the capacity of the Anglican church and its leaders to provide stability in urban–rural insecurities, and, as a result, have begun breaking away from mainstream Anglicanism in a quest for alternative social and moral orders untainted by their religious leaders’ apparent spiritual impurity and even corrupt behaviours. By distancing themselves from Anglicanism as the force that has meant to unify the village since its inception as a Christian refuge in the early twentieth century, Gwou’ulu villagers then not only break away but also apart, exaggerating rural frictions with and alienations from (urban) modernity.

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拯救霍尼亚拉，拯救格瓦卢：在所罗门群岛谈判摩擦性的乡镇关系和政治宗教（分裂）统一

在辩论有关美拉尼西亚城镇与乡村之间差异的管理以及次级转换和脱离运动的辩论时，本文考察了英国国教乡村教堂通过政治宗教统一在古瓦卢（Gwou'ulu）维持社会凝聚力的努力。所罗门群岛北部Malaita的多族裔村庄，以及霍尼亚拉的城市飞地。它侧重于Gwou'ulu每年发送给霍尼亚拉的圣公会“救援任务”，以提醒其城市亲戚其祖先圣公会房屋的价值，利益和优先事项。对这一“救援任务”及其周围争议的分析表明，村民之间为在其直接地理边界内外超出该村庄的政治宗教前途而进行的斗争。Gwou'ulu村民越来越质疑圣公会教堂及其领导人在城乡不安全中提供稳定的能力，结果，他们开始摆脱主流圣公会的束缚，以寻求不受其影响的替代性社会和道德秩序。宗教领袖明显存在精神上的污秽，甚至腐败行为。自20世纪初成为基督教避难所以来，通过脱离圣公会这一统一村庄的力量，格瓦卢村民不仅分裂了而且分裂了，加剧了与（城市）的农村摩擦和疏远）的现代性。他们已经开始脱离主流英国国教，以寻求其他宗教和社会秩序，这些秩序并没有受到宗教领袖明显的精神污秽甚至腐败行为的污染。自20世纪初成为基督教避难所以来，通过脱离圣公会这一统一村庄的力量，格瓦卢村民不仅分裂了而且分裂了，加剧了与（城市）的农村摩擦和疏远）的现代性。他们已经开始脱离主流英国国教，以寻求其他宗教和社会秩序，这些秩序并没有受到宗教领袖明显的精神污秽甚至腐败行为的污染。自20世纪初成为基督教避难所以来，通过脱离圣公会这一统一村庄的力量，格瓦卢村民不仅分裂了而且分裂了，加剧了与（城市）的农村摩擦和疏远）的现代性。