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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| 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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- Christianity -- Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin.
- Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) -- Religious life and customs.
- Christianisme -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Urapmin.
- Urapmin (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Vie religieuse.
- Christendom.
- Religieuze gebruiken.
- Christianisierung.
- Christentum.
- Religion.
- Soziokultureller Wandel.
- Papua-Neuguinea.
- Urapmin.

