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

作者：JoelRobbins

出版社：UniversityofCaliforniaPress

副标题：ChristianityandMoralTormentinaPapuaNewGuineaSociety

出版年：2004-4-12

页数：410

定价：USD36.95

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780520238008

内容简介
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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 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.

作者简介
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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.

目录
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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People

Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change

PART ONE: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period

2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations

3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church

PART TWO: LIVING IN SIN

4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space

5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality

6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality

7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self

8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values

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

Notes

References

Index

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大的学术背景，非西方基督教研究的缺失。

近十年最细致的民族志之一

大的学术背景，非西方基督教研究的缺失。

近十年最细致的民族志之一

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