Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / by Joel Robbins.

Author: Robbins, Joel, 1961-

Imprint:Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.

Descriptionxxvii, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.

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