Fountain Philip - Pursuing peace in Godzone: Christianity and the peace tradition in New Zealand

Pursuing Peace in Godzone:
Christianity and the Peace Tradition
in New Zealand

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

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First published 2018

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Contents

Geoffrey Troughton & Philip Fountain

Tom Noakes-Duncan

Elizabeth Duke

George Armstrong

Peter Matheson

Karen Kemp

Jamie Allen

Mike Ross, Manu Caddie, Jono Campbell & Judy Kumeroa

John Chote

Pamela Welch

Dorcas Dennis

Adi Leason

Andrew Shepherd

John H. Shaver, Chris G. Sibley & Joseph A. Bulbulia

Chris Marshall

Geoffrey Troughton & Philip Fountain

Jamie Allen is an Anglican priest and former Dean of Taranaki Cathedral. He is married to Suzy, and dad of four daughtersDanielle, Carrie, Katy and Roxanne. Jamie is currently part of the team at Tearfund New Zealand, an international aid and development organisation, and co-ordinator for a residential suicide prevention initiative based in Taranaki.

George Armstrong, PhD (Princeton), OV (Order of Vanuatu) is a priest and theological teacher in the Anglican Church, a veteran of the New Zealand and indigenous-led Pacific peace and justice movements, and a promoter of movements for interreligious and intercultural dialogue. He has taught in several seminaries and universities. His life work from 1965 has been as senior lecturer in Systematic Theology at the College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland, where his research and teaching included religion and society involvement.

Joseph A. Bulbulia is an evolutionary scholar and the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland. He is a co-curator of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, a 20-year national-scale longitudinal study. He is also co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior. Joseph uses evidence-based methods to understand the links between religious commitments and social behaviours.

Manu Caddie lives with Tarsh and their children at Penu P near Ruatoria, where he is managing director for a biotechnology company developing health products from native plants, fungi, cannabis and shellfish. Manu is co-founder of the South Pacific Christian Anarchists network. Though full of personal convictions, and despite three arrests, to date he has no criminal convictions.

Jono Campbell is based in Christchurch where he works with rangatahi and whnau from across the city as General Manager of Te Ora Hou tautahi (TOHO). He started in Te Ora Hou as a volunteer in 1990, became National Coordinator in 2002, then shifted into leadership of TOHO in 2004. Born in Southland, raised in the Far North, Jono is married to Vicki: their two girls claim Ngpuhi, Ngti Porou, Samoan, Niuean and European whakapapa.

John Chote is a career teacher of 35 years and counting. He has taught in primary, intermediate and secondary schools in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and India. His specialist subjects are religious studies, philosophy and music. He is currently Head of Religious Studies at Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt.

Dorcas Dennis completed a PhD in Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in 2016. She is an online co-ordinator at Florida International University, and section editor for the Australasian Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Her research interests include global Pentecostalism, religion and migration, transnationalism and diaspora studiesfocusing on the religious traffic between Africa and the African diaspora in North America and Australia.

Elizabeth Duke is a former lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago. She became involved with the Quakers in 1967, and has held a number of voluntary positions, locally, nationally and internationally. She was employed from 1997 to mid-2004 as Associate Secretary, then General Secretary, of Friends World Committee for Consultation, the Quaker international networking body.

Philip Fountain is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. He was formerly a Senior Research Fellow in the Religion and Globalization Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He received his doctorate in Anthropology from the Australian National University. He has published extensively on religion and development, disaster relief, non-governmental organisations, and the transnational service and peacemaking work carried out by North American Mennonites.

Karen Kemp is the Dean of Tikanga Pkeh students at the College of St John the Evangelist in Auckland. She has previously worked in nursing, community development, conflict transformation and theological education in Australasia, Chile, Mongolia and the United Kingdom. Karen currently teaches ethics, conflict transformation, New Testament studies and ministry formation. Her doctoral research through George Fox University, Oregon, focuses on leadership and spiritual formation.

Judy Kumeroa is manager and youth worker at Te Ora Hou Whanganui, where she has worked with Whanganuis young people for 25 years. She and her husband have fostered countless young people, and also volunteer for the community action event Stone Soup, which is held every eight weeks and attracts about 400 families for hngi, games and music.

Adi Leason is married to Shelley, whom he met at Wellington Teachers College in 1984. They have seven children and live on a small organic Catholic Worker farm outside of taki. Adis political education was served by living in a Wellington City Council public housing complex for seven years and then in an urban slum in Southeast Asia. He and his family remain intrigued by the possibilities of manual labour, voluntary poverty, an open home and non-violent direct action.

Chris Marshall holds the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice at Victoria University of Wellington. He is author of many books, journal articles and reference work entries, and has a deep commitment to peace theology and peacebuilding in general. Chris has an international reputation for his contribution to restorative justice theory and practice and is frequently invited as a conference speaker and guest lecturer.

Peter Matheson is a religious historian whose main publications have focused on the German Reformation. He has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Otago, and is Principal Emeritus of Uniting Church Theological College, Melbourne. A retired Presbyterian minister, of Celtic heritage, married to a German, he is active in peace and environmental issues, and fascinated by the dynamics of change, yesterday and today. Lives in Dunedin and loves it.

Tom Noakes-Duncan is a Lecturer in Restorative Justice at Victoria University of Wellington. With a background in theological ethics, his first book