Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119352 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.