Books written by Jione Havea

Out of Place: Doing Theology on the Crosscultural Brink

Bellinger, Jr, W. H. and W. R. Farmer (eds) (1998). Jesus and the Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 and Christian Origins. Pennsylvania: Trinity. Bridges-Johns, C. (1996). ®Healing. and Deliverance: A Pentecostal Perspective.
Out of Place: Doing Theology on the Crosscultural Brink

What Edward Said remarked after the incident of September 11, 2001 is true if he agrees that education means to reveal reality from diverse phases of history: “In the long run, education is the most important. Through education, we can ...
Losing Ground: Reading Ruth in the Pacific

Weaving Ruth's story together with the stories of those who, as Pacific islanders on the frontline of a climate catastrophe, are forced to leave their homes because of rising sea levels, Pasifika bible scholar Jione Havea offers a powerful ...
Losing Ground: Reading Ruth in the Pacific

Like the Tuvaluans and iKiribatis, the Tokelauans try to protect every 5 centimetres of land by building and rebuilding seawalls. Unfortunately, the king tides do not respect seawalls and the islanders are losing the battle against the ...
Mission and Context

This book re-visits the principles and practices of mission and re-visions the Christian mission to account for and (en)counter "context matters" in the age of empire.
Bible, Borders, Belonging(s): Engaging Readings from Oceania

Mark 1–8:26. Word Biblical Commentary 34A. Dallas: Word. Hurtado, Larry W. 1983. Mark. New International Bible Commentary on ... Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek: New Light from Linguistics on the Particles ἵνα and ὅτι.
Religion and Power

Religion has power structures that require and justify collaboration with empires. Concentrating on Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, this book also asserts that religion has subversive energies that undermine its power plays.
People and Land: Decolonizing Theologies

This book addresses the impacts of the strikes by empires upon land and people, the traditions that fund and sanctify those ventures, and the spinoffs that they inspire.
MEDIAting Theology

This collection engages the challenges and opportunities for doing theology in the context or age of media.
Bordered Bodies, Bothered Voices: Native and Migrant Theologies

As the concept of somatechnics pays 17. https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/35919/1/SEM_accepted%20version29052015MD.pdf. 18. Laforteza, The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race, 4. 19. Laforteza, The Somatechnics of Whiteness and ...
Bible Blindspots: Dispersion and Othering

This collection of essays engages some of the subjects who face dispersion (physical displacement that sparks ideological bias) and othering (ideologies that manifest in social distancing and political displacement).
Doing Theology in the New Normal: Global Perspectives

Truly global in scope, with contributors from across the world, this collection revisits four old responses to crises – assure, protest, trick, amend – to explore if/how those might still be relevant and effective and/or how they might ...
Islands, Islanders, and the Bible: RumInations

Insularity and Other “Islanded”World reactions “Diaspora space” rather than “insularity” is the defining characteristic of islander identity formation. Insularity is not an a priori islander characteristic, but rather a choice in light ...
MEDIAting Theology

This collection engages the challenges and opportunities for doing theology in the context or age of media.
Doing Theology in the New Normal: Global Perspectives

... a busca do bem viver (sumak kawsay) para todos e sempre', Conselho Indigenista Missionário (accessed 17.3.21: cimi.org.br/2010/12/elementos-para-a-busca-do-bem-viver-sumak-kawsay-para-todose-sempre/). Pedro Tierra, 2013, A Palavra ...
Bordered Bodies, Bothered Voices: Native and Migrant Theologies

... Samoan Thoughts . " 100. Va'a , “ Samoan Custom and Human Rights , 238 . 101. Meleisea , Lalaga , 2 . 102. Garrett , To Live Amongst the Stars , 121 . 103. Holmes , Quest for the Real Samoa , 62 . 104. Holmes , Quest for the Real Samoa ...
Theologies from the Pacific

This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika). The essays are grouped into three clusters.
Postcolonial Voices from Downunder: Indigenous Matters, Confronting Readings

... of the land, cultures, minds and languages of indigenous and native peoples, at home and in diaspora. The overlaying ... Ecumenical Directions in the United States Today: Churches on a Theological Journey, edited by Antonios Kireopoulos ...