Christian Temporalities: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed

Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed
	Anthropology of Time, Anthropology in Time
	Foregrounding Christianity
	Between Immanence and Transcendence: Historiopraxy and Mediation
	Plan of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: When Historiopraxy Becomes Heritage
	Introduction
	Historiopraxy: Emergence and Development
	Temporality and Representation in the Anthropology of Christianity
	Redeeming the Past
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 3: Competing Temporalities in a Fijian Pentecostal Church
	Introduction
	Christian Temporalities
	The Harvest Ministry
	Temporalities in Harvest Ministry Discourse
	Temporality One: Rupture and Agency
	Temporality Two: God’s Plan
	Temporality Three: Repeating the Lives of Biblical Figs
	Concluding Remarks: History and an Emerging Fijian Middle Class
	References
Chapter 4: The Labour of History: Kerewo Christianity, Frustrated Modernity, and Historical Consciousness
	Introduction
	Chalmers in Kerewo Historical Consciousness
	Historical Christianity
	Capitalism’s Temporalities
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Divine Control Read Backwards: How Zimbabwe’s New Calvinists Narrate God’s Plans
	Introduction
	Agency in Christian Past, Present, and Future
	Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
	An Impenetrable Future and an Uncertain Present
	Divine Sovereignty as it Passes by
	“I Learn Backwards”
	Conclusion: Drawing Boundaries Around Time
	References
Chapter 6: Sacred Drama and Temporal Tapestries: Invoking the Divine by Performing the Past in Contemplative Christianity
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Mary Magdalene Makes Her Appearance
	6.3 Invoking History by Becoming the Character: Energetic Unity and Embodied Presence
	6.4 Transforming History: Divine Indwelling and Revelation in Sacred Drama
	6.5 Time as Tapestry: “The Intersection of Time and Timelessness”
	References
Chapter 7: Fátima and the Referendum: Pilgrimage as Temporal Work in Bougainville Politics
	Introduction
	Fátima in Conflict and Post-Conflict Bougainville
	Bringing the Ordinary into Sacred Time
	Politics, Pilgrimage, and the Future of Bougainville
	References
Chapter 8: The Trouble with Christian Time: Thinking in Jewish
	8.1 The Maharal
	8.2 The Trouble
	8.3 Jewish Sages, Medieval and Contemporary
	8.4 Advancement
	References
Chapter 9: Asmat Horizons of the Past
	The Past as Horizon
	Asmat Epochs
	Conversion to Future Progress
	We Cannot Be Pacified
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Epilogue: Crafting Time
	Time, Fiction, and the End of the World
	Temporality and the Anatomy of Events
	References
Index