The Politics of a Contronymic Secularism in Fiji

During Fiji‘s 2012 constitution-drafting process, the Christian State debate repeated as a site of public division. Whereas the constitution commission, the military regime, liberal Christians and Hindu and Muslim Indo-Fijians argued a secular state was necessary to secure political equality and freedom to all Fiji‘s citizens, many indigenous iTaukei demanded the establishment of Christianity as...

Panel 85, TUESDAY JUNE 26 2018 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM