| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 383 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4
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Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin.
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Christianity. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin. |
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Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) -- Religious life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robbins, Joel, 1961- Becoming sinners. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004 0520237994 0520238001 (DLC) 2003006767 (OCoLC)51942327 |
| ISBN |
9780520937086 (electronic book) |
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0520937082 (electronic book) |
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0520237994 |
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9780520237995 |
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0520238001 |
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9780520238008 |
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