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Author Jebens, Holger.

Title Pathways to heaven : contesting mainline and fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea / Holger Jebens.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-275) and index.
Summary Based around the case study of a single village in Papua New Guinea, 'Pathways to Heaven' examines the tensions, antagonisms and outright confrontations that can occur within local Christian communities upon the arrival of global versions of fundamentalism.
Contents pt. I. Pairundu. 1. Present-day culture ; 2. Traditional religion ; 3. Colonisation and missionisation ; 4. Catholics and Adventists -- pt. II. Change and continuity. 5. Past and future changes ; 6. Adopting Christianity ; 7. The influence of the traditional religion -- pt. III. Missionisation and modernisation. 8. Missionisation in Papua New Guinea ; 9. Fundamentalism as a response to modernity ; 10. Concluding remarks.
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Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Seventh-Day Adventists.
Église catholique -- Relations -- Adventistes du septième jour.
Catholic Church
Papua New Guinea -- Church history.
Christianity and culture -- Papua New Guinea -- History.
Seventh-Day Adventists -- Relations -- Catholic Church.
Papua New Guinea -- Religion.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology
Christianity and culture
Interfaith relations
Religion
Seventh-Day Adventists
Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
Genre/Form Case studies.
Church history
History
Other Form: Print version: Jebens, Holger. Pathways to heaven. New York : Berghahn Books, 2005 1845450051 (DLC) 2004055428 (OCoLC)61134425
ISBN 9781789205725 (electronic bk.)
1789205727 (electronic bk.)
1845450051 (alk. paper)
9781845450052 (alk. paper)

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