Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Missions
7. 1. Sacred Speakers or Sacred Groups: The Colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea 41
8. 2. Linguistic Locality and the Anti-Institutionalism of Evangelical Christianity: The Summer Institute of Linguistics 64
9. 3. Translating Locality: The Ethno-Linguistics of Christian Critique 90
10. Part Two. Christian Villages
11. 4. Revival Villages: Experiments in Christian Social and Spatial Groups 123
12. 5. The Surprise of Speech: Disorder, Violence, and Christian Language after the Men’s House 159
13. Part Three. Denominations
14. 6. Events of Translation: Intertextuality and Denominationalist Change 191
15. 7. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique 215
16. 8. Kinship, Christianity, and Culture Critique: Learning to Be a Lost Tribe of Israel in Papua New Guinea 244
17. Notes 275
18. References 285
19. Index 301