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The role of religion in local perceptions of disasters

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dc.contributor.author Holmgaard, Sanne Bech
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-17T20:54:22Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-17T20:54:22Z
dc.date.issued 2018-11-15
dc.identifier.citation DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2018.1546664 sm
dc.identifier.issn 1747-7891
dc.identifier.issn 1878-0059
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/3851
dc.description 16pgs. sm
dc.description.abstract This paper explores religious perceptions of disasters and their implications for post-disaster processes of religious and cultural change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in post-tsunami Samoa, this study investigates how people in two tsunami-affected villages make sense of the tsunami, its causes and impact based on different Christian understandings: the tsunami as divine punishment or as a sign of the Second Coming. I argue that these different perceptions of the tsunami are used in bringing about or opposing religious and cultural change based on different ideals of continuity and change. sm
dc.language.iso en sm
dc.publisher Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group sm
dc.subject Christianity sm
dc.subject Religion sm
dc.subject Culture sm
dc.subject Perception sm
dc.subject Tsunami sm
dc.title The role of religion in local perceptions of disasters sm
dc.title.alternative The case of post-tsunami religious and social change in Samoa sm
dc.type Article sm


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