Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization
|
Buy Now
Pathways to Heaven - Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
Loot Price: R870
Discovery Miles 8 700
|
|
Pathways to Heaven - Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.