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Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society
Joel Robbins
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Paperback. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. Offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as a lived religion. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 410 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HRAM9; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
Series
Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520238008
SKU
V9780520238008
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About Joel Robbins
Joel Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is coeditor of Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Contemporary Melanesia (1999) and of the journal Anthropological Theory.
Reviews for Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society
"Robbins manages, through his ethnography, to illustrate for us the need to understand radical change." Reviews In Anthropology