Description: Further DetailsTitle: Pathways to HeavenCondition: NewSubtitle: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New GuineaISBN-10: 1845450051EAN: 9781845450052ISBN: 9781845450052Publisher: Berghahn BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/01/2005Description: How does global Christianity relate to processes of globalisation and modernization and what form does it take in different local settings? These questions have lately proved to be of increasing interest to many scholars in the social sciences and humanities. This study examines the tensions, antagonisms and outright confrontations that can occur within local Christian communities upon the arrival of global versions of fundamentalism and it does so through a rich and in-depth ethnographic study of a single case: that of Pairundu, a small and remote Papua New Guinean village whose population accepted Catholicism, after first being contacted in the late 1950s, and subsequently participated in a charismatic movement, before more and more members of the younger generation started to separate themselves from their respective catholic families and to convert to one of the most radical and fastest growing religious groups not only in contemporary Papua New Guinea but world-wide: the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. This case study of local Christianity as a lived religion contributes to an understanding of the social and cultural dynamics that increasingly incite and shape religious conflicts on a global scale.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 526gAuthor: Holger JebensGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Pathways to Heaven
Title: Pathways to Heaven
Subtitle: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New
ISBN-10: 1845450051
EAN: 9781845450052
ISBN: 9781845450052
Release Date: 07/01/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Pathways to Heaven : Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Christianity / Seventh-Day Adventist, Christian Theology / Anthropology, Christianity / Catholic, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology of Religion, Oceania
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Holger Jebens
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
