About the Journal

The Journal of Contemporary Pasifika Theologies (CPT) is based at the Pasifika Communities University in Suva, Fiji.

It responds to the urgent need to upgrade and reStory Pasifika theologies in the light of the contemporary, to critically articulate our faith and to assist the churches to seriously respond from a ‘whole of life’ perspective to the pressing societal and ecological issues in the midst of the Anthropocene. It urges us to tell our story as we see fit and encourages communities-based research methodologies that centre ‘life for the whole’ rather than ‘life for the one’.

The journal invites island, moana, communities-based, decolonial inter- and transdisciplinary, even dirtified research from dirt communities that liberates the bible and theology from the rules and compartmentalised imperatives of Eurocentric colonial Christianity in order to serve our contemporary society, the vanua, and the public space in the light of God’s vision of life for all.

We welcome self-determined, innovative, and prophetic theological voices for rethinking Pasifika history, bible, theology, ecumenism, interfaith and mission; transforming the present; and shaping the future in the light of life-affirming values.

CPT publishes peer-reviewed research articles as well as book reviews, opinion pieces, poetry and other documents that contribute to Pasifika theological talanoa.

CPT publishes two issues per year.