Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robbins, Joel, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
Colección:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4.
Temas:
Christianity > Papua New Guinea > Urapmin.
Christianisme > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Urapmin.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christianity
Christianisierung
Christentum
Religion
Soziokultureller Wandel
Christendom.
Religieuze gebruiken.
Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) > Religious life and customs.
Urapmin (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Vie religieuse.
Papua New Guinea > Urapmin
Papua-Neuguinea
Urapmin.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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