03676nam 22006614a 450 991045043720332120200520144314.097866127628881-282-76288-50-520-93708-21-59734-483-410.1525/9780520937086(CKB)1000000000024203(EBL)224796(OCoLC)475931969(SSID)ssj0000109632(PQKBManifestationID)11114014(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109632(PQKBWorkID)10046378(PQKB)11479905(MiAaPQ)EBC224796(DE-B1597)520887(OCoLC)56733684(DE-B1597)9780520937086(Au-PeEL)EBL224796(CaPaEBR)ebr10068540(CaONFJC)MIL276288(EXLCZ)99100000000002420320030320d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBecoming sinners[electronic resource] Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /by Joel RobbinsBerkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20041 online resource (413 p.)Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;4Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23799-4 0-520-23800-1 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.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 1960's to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970's, 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 nature of cultural change more generally. In so doing, he offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as a lived religion. Theoretically ambitious and engagingly written, his book opens a unique perspective on a Melanesian society, religious experience, and the very nature of rapid cultural change.Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;4.ChristianityPapua New GuineaUrapminUrapmin (Papua New Guinea)Religious life and customsElectronic books.Christianity306.6/09957/7Robbins Joel1961-1000270MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450437203321Becoming sinners2472697UNINA