Since the 1990s, the science of memetics has existed outside of any discipline and freely available to all. It has remained clandestine, having failed to become established as a “normal” science, but its vitality has been unabated by the resistance of critics. Today, the accelerated reinvention of the world and its dense global networks have opened up new opportunities for the science of memetics to prove its worth to an intellectual community in dire need of interdisciplinary exchanges.

This article analyses the logic of (de)territorialisation at work in Protestant churches and movements in Oceania, through two examples : the indigenous militants of the “ historic” mâ’ohi Protestant church of French Polynesia, and the relationships between the Evangelical and Pentecostal churches and the local context. Over and above the obvious opposition between cultural roots and Evangelical globalisation, relationships with the local context and memory appear to have become a major arena for confrontation between Pentecostalism and traditional Christianity in Oceania.