Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /
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 w...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
©2004.
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| Serija: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp8f0 |
Sadržaj:
- 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.