| Description |
1 online resource (784 pages) : illustrations |
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The Anthropology of Christianity ; v. 16 |
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Anthropology of Christianity ; v. 16.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Missions; 1. Sacred Speakers or Sacred Groups: The Colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea; 2. Linguistic Locality and the Anti-Institutionalism of Evangelical Christianity: The Summer Institute of Linguistics; 3. Translating Locality: The Ethno-Linguistics of Christian Critique; Part Two. Christian Villages; 4. Revival Villages: Experiments in Christian Social and Spatial Groups; 5. The Surprise of Speech: Disorder, Violence, and Christian Language after the Men's House |
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Part Three. Denominations6. Events of Translation: Intertextuality and Denominationalist Change; 7. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique; 8. Kinship, Christianity, and Culture Critique: Learning to Be a Lost Tribe of Israel in Papua New Guinea; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
In Critical Christianity, Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as ""the body of Christ."" Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of denominational schism-long relegated to the secular study of politics or identity-are moments of critique through which Christians constitute themselves and their social worlds. Far from being a practice of individualism, Protestantism offers local people ways to make social groups sacred units of critique. Bible translation, produced by members of the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Translating -- Papua New Guinea
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Bible fast |
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Christian sects -- Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
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Protestantism -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea
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Lutheran Church -- Papua New Guinea
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Guhu-Samane language -- Papua New Guinea
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Guhu-Samane language
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Lutheran Church
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Papua New Guinea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520959514 |
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0520959515 |
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0520283767 |
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9780520283763 |
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