Becoming sinners
Subtitle: Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society
By: by Joel Robbins
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Series: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity -- 4
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.

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Electronic data. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004.

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Table of contents: title: Part one : becoming sinners; title: From salt to the law : contact and the early colonial period; title: Christianity and the colonial transformation of regional relations; title: Revival, second stage conversion, and the localization of the Urapmin Church; title: Part two : living in sin; title: Contemporary Urapmin in millennial time and space; title: Willfulness, lawfulness, and Urapmin morality; title: Desire and its discontents : free time and Christian morality; title: Rituals of redemption and technologies of the self; title: Millennialism and the contest of values; title: Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid.