Islam in the Pacific
Cass, Philip
Date
2017-06Citation:
Cass, P. (2017, June 29-July 3). Islam in the Pacific. Paper presented at European Society for Oceanists, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3987Abstract
It goes without saying that this paper will, of necessity, present the merest sketch of an extremely complicated topic.
In order to make this manageable, I have concentrated on Melanesia and Polynesia and omitted Micronesia and the metropolitan powers, Australia and New Zealand.
Literature on the topic is scarce certainly in comparison with the libraries of books written about the Christian missions and churches.
[Scott] Flower’s work on Islam in Papua New Guinea is a good example of what might be achieved on a country by country analysis, but even a single volume synthesis of the existing work would be welcome.
[Flower, S. (2016) Islam and Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea. Taylor & Francis Ltd. 9781138776357]