Holger Jebens

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Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New GuineaHardcover, 1 July 2005

Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date Published
1 Jul 2005
ISBN-10
1845450051
ISBN-13
9781845450052

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Holger Jebens
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 July 2005
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
Genre:
Christian
ISBN-10:
1845450051
ISBN-13:
9781845450052
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Weight:
517.09 gm

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