Jaap Timmer

Prophetic Histories

Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 208 Seiten
ISBN 1836952775
EAN 9781836952770
Veröffentlicht 1. Dezember 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Berghahn Books
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Beschreibung

On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctive time-consciousness that reads the historical past and present as prophetic signs of an imminent future. This book examines how these 'prophetic histories' interweave biblical narrative, theological reflection, local accounts, kastom practice, spiritual journeys and Old-Testament political theory.

Portrait

Jaap Timmer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney and a former Senior Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. He has published numerous articles on religion, history and sovereignty in Indonesian Papua and the Solomon Islands. His recent research explores historicity, heritage and the notion of a 'cosmic polity' among the Asmat of Papua.