translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea /
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Courtney Handman.
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Berkeley :
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University of California Press,
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2015.
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1 online resource (784 pages) :
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illustrations
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The Anthropology of Christianity ;
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v. 16
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Missions; 1. Sacred Speakers or Sacred Groups: The Colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea; 2. Linguistic Locality and the Anti-Institutionalism of Evangelical Christianity: The Summer Institute of Linguistics; 3. Translating Locality: The Ethno-Linguistics of Christian Critique; Part Two. Christian Villages; 4. Revival Villages: Experiments in Christian Social and Spatial Groups; 5. The Surprise of Speech: Disorder, Violence, and Christian Language after the Men's House.
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Part Three. Denominations6. Events of Translation: Intertextuality and Denominationalist Change; 7. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique; 8. Kinship, Christianity, and Culture Critique: Learning to Be a Lost Tribe of Israel in Papua New Guinea; Notes; References; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In Critical Christianity, Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as ""the body of Christ."" Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of denominational schism-long relegated to the secular study of politics or identity-are moments of critique through which Christians constitute themselves and their social worlds. Far from being a practice of individualism, Protestantism offers local people ways to make social groups sacred units of critique. Bible translation, produced by members of the.
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OverDrive, Inc.
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22573/ctt928c7d
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70690DBB-D712-4999-A8AA-7B0CE0F6213D
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Title
Critical Christianity : Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea.
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9780520283756
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Translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea
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Bible-- Translating-- Papua New Guinea.
Bible.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christian sects-- Papua New Guinea-- Social life and customs.
Guhu-Samane language-- Papua New Guinea.
Lutheran Church-- Papua New Guinea.
Protestantism-- Social aspects-- Papua New Guinea.