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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/699123391 Title: Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society Author: Joel Robbins Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Univ. of Calif. Press, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780520238008 0520238001 OCLC:699123391

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

Author:	Joel Robbins
Publisher:	Berkeley, Calif. : Univ. of Calif. Press, 2008.
Series:	Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 4.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : [Nachdr.]View all editions and formats
Summary:	Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. Offers one of the richest Read more...
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Subjects	Christianity -- Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin. Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) -- Religious life and customs. Christianity. View all subjects
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Joel Robbins Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780520238008 0520238001
OCLC Number:	699123391
Description:	XXVII, 383 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten.
Contents:	List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change PART ONE: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY 1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period 2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church PART TWO: LIVING IN SIN 4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self 8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid Notes References Index
Series Title:	Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 4.
Responsibility:	Joel Robbins.

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