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Fraser Macdonald

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Fraser Macdonald is senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Waikato. His research focus is global evangelical-Pentecostal Christian movements in Melanesia and how they intersect with traditional cultural frameworks.

Brian Tamaki at an anti-lockdown protest in the Auckland Domain in October 2021. (Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Why Destiny Church and other NZ Pentecostals oppose lockdowns and vaccination

If any religious movement is primed to oppose Covid-19 mandates and restrictions, it's Pentecostalism.

By Fraser Macdonald | 29th October, 2021