TY  - BOOK
AU  - Handman,Courtney
TI  - Critical Christianity: translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea 
T2  - The Anthropology of Christianity
SN  - 9780520959514
AV  - BR1495 .C758 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Translating
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian sects
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Lutheran Church
KW  - Guhu-Samane language
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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. Denominations6. 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; 2; b
N2  - In Critical Christianity, Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as ""the body of Christ."" Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of denominational schism-long relegated to the secular study of politics or identity-are moments of critique through which Christians constitute themselves and their social worlds. Far from being a practice of individualism, Protestantism offers local people ways to make social groups sacred units of critique. Bible translation, produced by members of the
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