Becoming Sinners Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society

Name: Becoming Sinners Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society
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ISBN: 9780520238008

ISBN-10: 0520238001

ISBN-13: 9780520238008

Edition: 2005

Authors: Joel Robbins

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In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urapmin had undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People


Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change



The Making of a Christian Community



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



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


Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid


Notes


References


Index