Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /
Robbins, Joel,1961-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2004.
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