ABSTRACT This introduction takes a critical look at the heterogeneous corpus of social science research on climate change and Christian religion. The central concern is to present analytical alternatives to the universalist-essentialising approaches which, on the basis of a supposedly inherent contradiction between science and religion, exclude or devalue Christian contestation and modification of climate change discourse. With reference to the empirical-analytical richness of the contributions on Fiji, Vanuatu and Kiribati, this paper highlights the multiplicity, contrariness and processuality of the religious-political practice of Pacific Islanders in response to climate change as both a scientific narrative and a physical reality. The range of topics of the introduction includes the religious dimensions of blame, transnational networks of Christian actors and institutions as well as Christian framings of the nexus of climate change, mobility and resettlement. In addition, it outlines possible fields of future research such as the media politics of Christian institutions’ representations of climate change and a historical re-examination of missionary work in Oceania from the perspective of the entanglements of carbon and Christianity.

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简介：气候变化与太平洋基督教

摘要 本介绍对气候变化和基督教的社会科学研究的异质性进行了批判性研究。核心关注点是提出普遍主义本质化方法的分析替代方案，这些方法基于科学与宗教之间所谓的内在矛盾，排除或贬低基督教的争论和对气候变化话语的修改。参考对斐济、瓦努阿图和基里巴斯所做贡献的丰富经验分析，本文强调了太平洋岛民应对气候变化的宗教政治实践的多样性、矛盾性和过程性，既是科学叙述，也是物理现实。 . 引言的主题范围包括责备的宗教层面，基督教行动者和机构的跨国网络，以及气候变化、流动性和重新安置之间关系的基督教框架。此外，它还概述了未来研究的可能领域，例如基督教机构对气候变化的表现的媒体政治以及从碳和基督教的纠缠的角度对大洋洲传教工作的历史重新审视。