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Becoming Sinless: Converting to Islam in the Christian Solomon Islands

Debra McDougall First published: 17 November 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01157.x Citations: 13 Source: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ Abstract ABSTRACT Islam is beginning to have a significant presence in the predominantly Christian nation of Solomon Islands. A few well-educated Islanders were drawn to Islam’s elegant monotheism and promise of unity in the 1980s and early 1990s, but numbers have grown significantly in the […]
The Cost of the “Wantok System”
- Saturday, 16 February 2008 10:56 AM
The wantok system has often been described as a ‘safety net’ and for a country like the Solomon Islands where there are no social service schemes, this may be true. To those who do not know, the wantok system stems from the word ‘one talk’, which could be loosely defined as those speaking the same […]