Critical Christianity: translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea
Courtney Handman
Critical Christianity: translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea
Author
Courtney HandmanPublisher
University of California PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Critical Christianity: translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea / Courtney HandmanPublication Details
برکلی : University of California Press، 2015مPhysical Description
xiv, 307 p.: illustrations ; 23 cm.Subject
Christian sects -- Papua New Guinea Social life and customsProtestantism -- Papua New Guinea Social aspects
Lutheran Church -- Papua New Guinea
Guhu-Samane language -- Papua New Guinea
Bible -- Translating Papua New Guinea
series
(The anthropology of christianity؛ 16)Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )pages 582-300( and index.
Contents
Part one: Missions. Sacred speakers or sacred groups: the making of the colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea -- Linguistic locality and the anti-institutionalism of evangelical christianity : the summer institute of linguistics -- Translating locality : the ethno-linguistics of christian critique -- Part two: Christian villages. Revival villages : experiments in christian social and spatial groups -- The surprise of speech : disorder, violence and christian language after the men's house -- Part three: Denominations. Events of translation : intertextuality and denominationalist change -- Mediating denominational disputes : land claims and the sound of christian critique -- Kinship, christianity, and culture critique : learning to be a lost tribe of Israel in Papua New Guinea