:Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society
/ by Joel Robbins
Berkeley, Calif.
: University of California Press,
, c2004.
xxvii, 383 p. ill. 24 cm.
(Ethnographic studies in subjectivity
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.
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.
Christianity Papua New Guinea Urapmin
Urapmin (Papua New Guinea)- Religious life and customs