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Author:   Courtney Handman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780520283763

ISBN 10:   0520283767
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   26 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. MISSIONS 1. Sacred Speakers or Sacred Groups: The Colonial Lutheran Church in New Guinea 2. Linguistic Locality and the Anti-Institutionalism of Evangelical Christianity: The Summer Institute of Linguistics 3. Translating Locality: The Ethno-Linguistics of Christian Critique PART TWO. CHRISTIAN VILLAGES 4. Revival Villages: Experiments in Christian Social and Spatial Groups 5. The Surprise of Speech: Disorder, Violence, and Christian Language after the Men's House PART THREE: DENOMINATIONS 6. Events of Translation: Intertextuality and Denominationalist Change 7. Mediating Denominational Disputes: Land Claims and the Sound of Christian Critique 8. Kinship, Christianity, and Culture Critique: Learning to Be a Lost Tribe of Israel in Papua New Guinea Notes References Index

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Handman offers a careful analysis of the doings and sayings of New Life Christians. -- L. Lindstrom CHOICE

Handman offers a careful analysis of the doings and sayings of New Life Christians. -- L. Lindstrom CHOICE Courtney Handman's Critical Christianity...display[s] some of the best work being done right now in the anthropology of Christianity. Marginalia, Los Angeles Review of Books

Handman offers a careful analysis of the doings and sayings of New Life Christians. -- L. Lindstrom CHOICE Courtney Handman's Critical Christianity...display[s] some of the best work being done right now in the anthropology of Christianity. Marginalia, Los Angeles Review of Books Critical Christianity deserves to be read widely beyond its immediate audience of scholars of language, Christianity, and Melanesia for the way it both opens up, and begins to answer, fresh questions about critique and sociality, translation and ritual semiosis, and intersections between anthropology and theology. Oceania Handman provides an important new perspective on how Christianity might be considered not merely the object of critique but also a space for and means of social and cultural critique. American Anthropologist

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Courtney Handman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

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