Pacific Well-Being

(Is)Lands, Theologies, Worldviews

Jione Havea

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English

Pickwick Publications
29 March 2024

Religious ethics; Christianity; Bibles

Series: Intersectionality and Theology

This book makes space (1) for Pasifika contributions to academic conversations on critical topics and (2) for influencing the conversations to account for, and thus reflect, Pasifika ways and modes. The critical topic that runs through the chapters is well-being, and the contributors were located at the time of writing in Pasifika--Aotearoa, Fiji, Kioa, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu--but there are many more Pasifika voices and concerns than are represented in this work. Nonetheless, the ways in which this work seeks to influence the conversations on well-being reflect the intersectional modes of thinking that native Pasifika Islanders share. The essays are placed into three intersecting clusters: well-being of bodies and (is)lands, well-being of traditions and theologies, and well-being of imaginations and worldviews. The rationale for this arrangement is that the well-being of Pasifika requires attention to the present (bodies and islands), to the past (traditions and theologies), and to the future (imaginations and worldviews). The chapters address Pasifika questions and concerns, and they are placed so that the conversations they spark can take place--free of the traps of Western theories and disciplines--with Pasifika accents and rhythms.

Edited by: Jione Havea
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781666762181
ISBN 10: 1666762180
Series: Intersectionality and Theology
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jione Havea is a native pastor in the Methodist Church in Tonga and a research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa, New Zealand) as well as with the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University (Canberra, Australia).

Reviews for Pacific Well-Being: (Is)Lands, Theologies, Worldviews

"""From the global margins, islands scattered across the Pacific, voices often ignored are heard crying for well-being. Jione Havea assembles scholars rooted in an indigenous intersectional worldview which connects sound theology with sound bodies and a sound environment, thus challenging the Eurocentric, anthropocentric worldview responsible for so much of the world's (dis)ease. We--the reader--are invited to a Pasifika table to feast on and learn from the wisdom that undergirds the well-being of bodies and islands, traditions and theologies, imaginations and worldviews."" --Miguel A. De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latinx studies, Iliff School of Theology ""Jione Havea, island theologian by heart and vocation, floats to us the waves of Pasifika theology by his fellow travelers from the archipelago. Their mode of storytelling theology and their plea for ecojustice shakes traditional academic theologies to the ground."" --Volker K�ster, author of The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Christology"