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

Author: Joel Robbins
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 4.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joel Robbins
ISBN: 0520237994 9780520237995 0520238001 9780520238008
OCLC Number: 51942327
Description: xxvii, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The making of a Christian community. 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 --
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 --
Conclusion : Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid.
Series Title: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 4.
Responsibility: by Joel Robbins.
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