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Patterns of sociality in Fijian evangelical Christianity differ from the mainline Fijian Methodist church in being notably less integrated with relations of vanua and chiefly hierarchy, leading scholars to speculate as to whether such traditions are more individualised. Analysing teachings, hymns, worship styles and spatial arrangements within a prominent Fijian Pentecostal ministry, I explore how sociality is produced through the interaction of spatial, conceptual, and embodied processes. Competing dynamics of hierarchy and equality, connections and boundaries, are mobilised within an overall framework that emphasises individual moral authority and personal relationship with God. Through this analysis, in conversation with previous studies, this paper argues for a critical examination of schemes of 'egalitarian individualism' and 'hierarchical holism', which, through the influence of Louis Dumont in particular, have been prominent in studies of Christianity and sociality in Oceania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The section provides an overview of works covering New Zealand and South Pacific literature. John Thomson's annual review of the literature introducing his comprehensive bibliography in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature has amounted to unusual kind of literary history. It is essentially a year-by-year account of the literature as it evolves. Chadwick Allen's book on Maori and American Indian literary and activist writing, Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts is where the specifics of the text are shown to illuminate much broader contexts. John O'Carroll's essay Envisioning the Real: Two Mishras on a Girmit World, provides a useful overview of the work of two Indo-Fijian writers who happen to share a family name Vijay Mishra and Sudesh Mishra.