© 2020 Australian Anthropological Society In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious traditions, compelling them to renew their faith, repent and seek redemption. This special issue takes up questions about Christianity’s temporal ‘secondarity’. Contributors move beyond increasingly futile theoretical debates about rupture and continuity by considering how Christians in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands conceptualise and enact their fraught relationships with prior religious traditions. By examining the place of culture within Christianity, contributors avoid the analytical pitfalls of assuming that Pacific culture is not already thoroughly Christian. Rather than taking up questions about initial Christian conversion, these articles focus on revival. The relentless campaigns of Christian renewal that have transformed religious landscapes more than a generation aim not only to overcome pre-Christian powers, but also to supersede earlier versions of Christianity. In examining not only highly localised ethnotheologies, but also regional movements, this issue opens questions that should be of interest beyond the anthropology of Christianity.

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超越破裂：太平洋的基督教文化

© 2020 澳大利亚人类学协会 以多种形式，基督教倾向于将信徒的注意力集中在早期的宗教传统上，迫使他们更新信仰、悔改并寻求救赎。本期特刊讨论了有关基督教在时间上的“次要性”的问题。通过考虑巴布亚新几内亚和所罗门群岛的基督徒如何概念化并制定他们与先前宗教传统的紧张关系，撰稿人超越了关于断裂和连续性的日益徒劳的理论辩论。通过考察文化在基督教中的地位，撰稿人避免了假设太平洋文化尚未完全是基督教的分析陷阱。这些文章没有讨论关于最初基督徒皈依的问题，而是关注复兴。基督教复兴的不懈运动已经改变了一代以上的宗教景观，其目的不仅是要克服基督教之前的权力，而且还要取代早期版本的基督教。在不仅考察高度本土化的民族神学，而且考察区域运动时，这个问题提出了一些应该在基督教人类学之外感兴趣的问题。