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  • Encounter of Religions in Papua New Guinea—Toward a Relationship between Christianity and Original Traditions

  • Dušan Lužný, Martin Soukup
  • Journal:
    Horizons / Volume 50 / Issue 2 / December 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 December 2023, pp. 365-386
    Print publication:
    December 2023
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  • The text introduces Papua New Guinea as a region where an encounter of various cultural and religious traditions occurred in the last several centuries and which still happens today. Christianization has posed a significant cultural change that has taken place recently and at the same time as modernization. Using examples from Papua New Guinea, the study demonstrates that although Christianity can dominate in a particular society, elements of original Indigenous religions can exist in parallel or can create a syncretic synthesis. The aim of the study is to analyze the types of this coexistence and to identify the factors of maintenance and transformation of Indigenous traditions as a result of Christianization as part of the process of globalization. The study is a contribution to the discussion on the forms of world Christianity.