Urapmin Christian conversion and eschatology

Record summary

Joel Robbins’s Becoming Sinners examines Urapmin Christianity, including conversion, confession, moral contradiction and expectations concerning salvation and Christian transformation. It is a useful comparative lead for apocalyptic-journey research because local Christian narratives are interpreted through older understandings of persons, spirits and social relations. The work does not establish paranormal events or a single apocalyptic episode. Researchers should determine which passages concern eschatology, visions or postmortem destiny and which concern everyday ethics and the anthropology of cultural change.