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Faith and its fulfillment

Agency, exchange, and the Fijian aesthetics of completion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2468136
AutoresHirokazu Miyazaki (0000-0002-2526-0103, Northwestern University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen27
Número1
Páginas31-51
Fecha de publicación2000-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.31
OpenAlexW2022415886
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas75
Referencias citadas69

In this article, I develop a theory of what I call the abeyance of agency, drawing upon a comparison between Fijian Christian church and gift-giving rituals. I argue that from religious practitioners' viewpoint, religious faith concerns not so much the intentions of an anthropomorphic God as the limits that are temporarily placed on ritual participants' agency. Such abeyance and subsequent recovery of their agency enables them to experience the intimations of an ultimate response,[agency, form, temporality, gift exchange, Christianity, Fiji

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Christianity · Epistemology · Faith · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies

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