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Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People xvii
- Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change 1
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Part One. The Making of a Christian Community
- 1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period 45
- 2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations 84
- 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church 122
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Part Two. Living in Sin
- 4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space 157
- 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality 182
- 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality 215
- 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self 253
- 8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values 289
- Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid 313
- Notes 335
- References 351
- Index 377
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People xvii
- Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change 1
-
Part One. The Making of a Christian Community
- 1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period 45
- 2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations 84
- 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church 122
-
Part Two. Living in Sin
- 4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space 157
- 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality 182
- 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality 215
- 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self 253
- 8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values 289
- Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid 313
- Notes 335
- References 351
- Index 377