ABSTRACT
In chapter 11 I have discussed the advent and advance of Christianity in Tikopia, and indicated in outline the general criteria which marked Christians off from pagans in a community in which they lived inter mingled in social relationship. I emphasized that while these criteria were basically religious, they had significant political implications. I now discuss in more detail the character of Tikopia Christian belief and practice, at a period (about 1952) when Christianity had become well established, but was still faced by a hard core of paganism, with con-siderable political power. Analysis of conditions at this period demon-strates both the continuity and the contrast with the situation a decade or so later, when the whole Tikopia community had become unified in a single faith.
