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

Main Author: Robbins, Joel, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4
Subjects:
Christianity > Papua New Guinea
Christianity > Urapmin. > Papua New Guinea
Christianity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION > Christianity
Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) > Religious life and customs. > Urapmin.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119352
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505 0 |a 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. 
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