Interfering chronos: Prophetic periodization in the time that remains in Malaita, Solomon Islands

I explore the socio-political implications of ‘the time that remains’ for evangelical believers in Solomon Islands. Drawing on François Hartog’s concept of regimes of historicity and Reinhart Koselleck’s ideas of temporalization, I apply these frameworks to an ethnographic study of the evangelical movement All Pacific Arise in North Malaita. The movement's prophet-leader divides Malaita’s history into three ‘invasions of God,’ linking the island's past to biblical and modern Israel. I show that this prophetic regime of historicity reshapes the understanding of history, emphasizing the awareness of remaining time and its challenge to modern chronological dominance. This time that remains is entangled with modernity’s chronos, as the ‘contemporaneity of the noncontemporaneous’ (Koselleck), and gives it political power.