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

Robbins, Joel,i1961- [Verfasser]

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 383 pages) : Illustrations

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index

978-0-520-93708-6 ; 0-520-93708-2 ; 0-520-23799-4 ; 978-0-520-23799-5 ; 0-520-23800-1 ; 978-0-520-23800-8 ; 1-4175-4530-5 ; 978-1-4175-4530-8 ; 0-520-23799-4

 

Papua-Neuguinea  Urapmin  Religion  Soziokultureller Wandel  Christianisierung  Christentum 

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.