Becoming sinners [electronic resource] : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / by Joel Robbins.

By: Robbins, Joel, 1961-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004Description: xxvii, 383 p. : illSubject(s): Christianity -- Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin | Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) -- Religious life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.6/09957/7 LOC classification: BR1495.N5 | R63 2004Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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