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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 1960's to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970's, the Urapmin had undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. In so doing, he offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as a lived religion. Theoretically ambitious and engagingly written, his book opens a unique perspective on a Melanesian society, religious experience, and the very nature of rapid cultural change.

Christianity --- Religions --- Church history --- Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) --- Religious life and customs. --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A76 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Oceanië --- Christianisme --- --Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- --Christianity --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- 1960s. --- anthropology. --- baptist missionaries. --- christian converts. --- christian culture. --- christian life. --- christian missionaries. --- christianity. --- cultural anthropologists. --- cultural change. --- cultural perspective. --- discussion books. --- good and evil. --- human condition. --- melanesian society. --- moral torment. --- morality and sin. --- nonfiction. --- papua new guinea society. --- papua new guinea. --- rapid change. --- religious experiences. --- religious studies. --- remote tribe. --- sinfulness. --- social anthropology. --- social change. --- theoretical. --- urapmin. --- Ethnography.

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Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Social change --- Economic development --- Ethnopsychology --- Culture and globalization --- Melanesia

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The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and accessible, as well as ethnographically rich, perspective on what has become a truly global religious trend, one that is challenging conventional analytical categories within the social sciences. This book informs students and seasoned scholars alike about the character of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism not only as they have spread across the globe, but also as they have become global movements. Adopting a broadly anthropological approach, the chapters synthesize the existing literature on Pentecostalism and evangelicalism even as they offer new analyses and critiques. They show how the study of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism provides a fresh way to approach classic anthropological themes; they contest the frequent characterization of these movements as conservative religious, social, and political forces; and they argue that Pentecostalism and evangelicalism are significant not least because they encourage us to reflect on the intersections of politics, materiality, morality and law. Ultimately, the volume leaves us with a clear sense of the cultural and social power, as well as the theoretical significance, of forms of Christianity that we can no longer afford to ignore.

Pentecostalism. --- Evangelicalism. --- Anthropology of religion. --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Evangelical religion --- Protestantism, Evangelical --- Evangelical Revival --- Fundamentalism --- Pietism --- Protestantism --- Charismatic Movement --- Charismatic Renewal Movement --- Latter Rain movement --- Neo-Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal movement --- Christianity --- Gifts, Spiritual --- Glossolalia --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.

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