Karen J. Brison

Karen J. Brison is a professor of anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her PhD in anthropology in 1988 from the University of California, San Diego. She has conducted research in Papua New Guinea and Fiji on Pentecostalism, gossip and oratory, childhood and education, and gender. She is the author of three books, and the co-editor of a fourth, and has published numerous articles.

Fijians in Transnational Pentecostal Networks »

Authored by: Karen J. Brison
Publication date: April 2023
In Fijians in Transnational Pentecostal Networks, Karen J. Brison examines the Harvest Ministry, an independent Fijian Pentecostal church that sends Fijian and Papua New Guinean missionaries to East Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and elsewhere. After studying the ministry’s main church in Suva for several years, Brison visited its missionaries and their local partners in East Africa and Papua New Guinea. The result of those visits, this book provides an unusual insight…