Transformation Scene by Ian Hogbin

Author:Ian Hogbin [Hogbin, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781136237713
Google: KfKAAAAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

10a. Repairing the seine

10b. Hauling in the seine

authority as the clergy of mediaeval Europe, and every difference of opinion between village teacher and luluai is apt ultimately to assume the proportions, of a quarrel between Church and State.

Details of arguments in the Solomon Islands between Mission leaders and officers of the Government will be found in some of my other publications, but as in that territory most villages have representatives of three or four Missions, the rivalries are of less consequence.1 If one set of elders, perhaps the converts of the South Seas Evangelical Mission, have a difference with the District Headman, the local equivalent of the paramount luluai, he can usually depend for support upon the remainder—a combination possibly of pagans, Anglicans, and Seventh Day Adventists or possibly of Catholics and Methodists—who fear that if he loses the fight they may have to suffer religious discrimination.

A statement by Voltaire points the situation. ‘If there were one religion in England its despotism would be a menace,’ he wrote; ‘and if there were two they would be at each other's throats. But there are thirty, and the people live together and are at peace.’

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