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The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post-conflict state building. She describes startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged from one another and from their homes. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.

Love --- Violence --- Strangers --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- christian conversion. --- civil conflict in solomon islands. --- culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. --- distinctive cosmopolitan openness. --- engagements with strangers across life. --- historical and anthropological narrative. --- kinspeople estranged from one another. --- logging and conservation. --- post conflict state building. --- pre colonial warfare. --- solomon islands. --- stereotypes of rural insularity. --- strangers attach to local places. --- study of solomon islands. --- thoughtful.

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The phrase ""Christian politics"" evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji, the authors argue that Christianity and politics have redefined each other in much of Oceania in ways that make the two categories i

Christianity and politics --- Christian sects