Becoming sinners Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /

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Hoofdauteur: Robbins, Joel, 1961-
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.
Reeks:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • Part one : becoming sinners
  • From salt to the law : contact and the early colonial period
  • Christianity and the colonial transformation of regional relations
  • Revival, second stage conversion, and the localization of the Urapmin Church
  • Part two : living in sin
  • Contemporary Urapmin in millennial time and space
  • Willfulness, lawfulness, and Urapmin morality
  • Desire and its discontents : free time and Christian morality
  • Rituals of redemption and technologies of the self
  • Millennialism and the contest of values
  • Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid.