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1 online resource (784 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome. |
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data file |
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The Anthropology of Christianity ; v. 16
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Anthropology of Christianity ; v. 16.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Missions; 1. Sacred Speakers or Sacred Groups: The Colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea; 2. Linguistic Locality and the Anti-Institutionalism of Evangelical Christianity: The Summer Institute of Linguistics; 3. Translating Locality: The Ethno-Linguistics of Christian Critique; Part Two. Christian Villages; 4. Revival Villages: Experiments in Christian Social and Spatial Groups; 5. The Surprise of Speech: Disorder, Violence, and Christian Language after the Men's House. |
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Part Three. Denominations6. Events of Translation: Intertextuality and Denominationalist Change; 7. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique; 8. Kinship, Christianity, and Culture Critique: Learning to Be a Lost Tribe of Israel in Papua New Guinea; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
In Critical Christianity, Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as ""the body of Christ."" Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of denominational schism-long relegated to the secular study of politics or identity-are moments of critique through which Christians constitute themselves and their social worlds. Far from being a practice of individualism, Protestantism offers local people ways to make social groups sacred units of critique. Bible translation, produced by members of the. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Bible -- Translating -- Papua New Guinea.
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Bible. |
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Papua New Guinea. |
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Bible. |
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Christian sects -- Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
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Christian sects. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Protestantism -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea.
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Protestantism. |
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Social aspects. |
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Lutheran Church -- Papua New Guinea.
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Lutheran Church. |
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Civil war -- Religious aspects -- Lutheran Church. |
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Guhu-Samane language -- Papua New Guinea.
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Guhu-Samane language. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Handman, Courtney. Critical Christianity : Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2014 9780520283756 |
| ISBN |
9780520959514 (electronic book) |
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0520959515 (electronic book) |
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9780520283756 (print) |
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0520283759 |
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0520283767 |
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9780520283763 |
| Standard No. |
40024318319 |
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