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| TITLE: |
Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / by Joel Robbins. |
| AUTHOR: |
Robbins, Joel, 1961- |
| SERIES: |
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4 |
| PUBLISHED: |
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xxvii, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index. |
| NOTES: |
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 |
| SUBJECT: |
- Millennialism and the contest of values -- Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid.--Christianity--Papua New Guinea |
| SUBJECT: |
Urapmin.--Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) |
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