Becoming sinners
Robbins, Joel, 1961-
Becoming sinners Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / [electronic resource] : by Joel Robbins. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004. - xxvii, 383 p. : ill. - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4 . - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4. .
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.
Christianity--Papua New Guinea--Urapmin.
Urapmin (Papua New Guinea)--Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
BR1495.N5 / R63 2004eb
306.6/09957/7
Becoming sinners Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / [electronic resource] : by Joel Robbins. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004. - xxvii, 383 p. : ill. - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4 . - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4. .
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.
Christianity--Papua New Guinea--Urapmin.
Urapmin (Papua New Guinea)--Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
BR1495.N5 / R63 2004eb
306.6/09957/7