Series: New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity

Areruya and Indigenous Prophetism in Northern Amazonia, based on four years of ethnographic research, discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practised by the Ingarikó in Northern Amazonia. Tracing the role of 19th-century missionaries in the region, the book shows how shamans started to announce the coming of a cataclysm, associated with the promise of indigenous...

The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the region’s history, but until now there has been no full-scale look at the regional upheaval or of why it occurred. As A Thousand Eruptions shows, many of the most influential anthropological studies of Christianity in Melanesia are built upon the revival movements of...