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Becoming sinners

by Robbins, Joel,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; . 4 Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley, Calif. :) Physical details: xxvii, 383 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Christianity -- Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin. | Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) -- Religious life and customs. | Electronic books.
Year: 2004
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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