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-# Is witchcraft in PNG out of control? #+# Is Christianity singular or plural? #
  
-## Is witchcraft in PNG out of control? ##+## Is Christianity singular or plural? ##
  
 Ryan Schram Ryan Schram
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 ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
  
-30 April 2015+27 April 2016
  
 +Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2667/8
  
 ### Readings ### ### Readings ###
  
-JorgensenDan2014. “Preying on Those Close to Home: Witchcraft Violence in a Papua New Guinea Village.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology [Early View]. doi:10.1111/taja.12105+CannellFenella2005. “The Christianity of Anthropology*.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2): 335–56. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x.
  
-WeschMichael2007. “A Witch Hunt in New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial.” Anthropology and Humanism 32 (1): 417. doi:10.1525/ahu.2007.32.1.4+RobbinsJoel2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Society.” American Anthropologist, New Series, 103 (4): 90112.
  
-Schram, Ryan. 2010. “Witches’ Wealth: Witchcraft, Confession, and Christianity in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16 (4): 726–42. doi:10.1111/j.1467–9655.2010.01650.x. +### Recommended readings ###
  
-### Other media ###+Cannell, Fenella. 1995. “The Imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1 (2): 377–94. doi:10.2307/3034694.
  
-AllisonApril. 2015. “The Women Not Witches’ Project.” Seeds Theatre Group, IncAccessed February 15http://seedstheatre.org/the-women-not-witches-project-2/.+HaynesNaomi. 2015. “‘Zambia Shall Be Saved!: Prosperity Gospel Politics in a Self-Proclaimed Christian Nation.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 19 (1): 5–24doi:10.1525/nr.2015.19.1.5.
  
-ChandlerJo2013. “It’s 2013And They’re Burning ‘Witches.” The Global Mail, February 15http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/its–2013-and-theyre-burning-witches/558/.+RobbinsJoel2007. “Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture: BeliefTime, and the Anthropology of Christianity.” Current Anthropology 48 (1): 5–38doi:10.1086/508690.
  
-The Leniata Legacy. 2015. “The Leniata Legacy: Advocates Against Gender-Based Violence in Papua New Guinea.” Accessed February 15. http://www.leniatalegacy.com/+### Other media ###
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-The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier. 2013. "Time for leaders to condemn sorcery killings." The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Editorial, p. 2. February 7. +
  
 +Jenkins, Philip. 2002. “The Next Christianity.” The Atlantic, October. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/10/the-next-christianity/302591/.
  
 +Schram, Ryan. 2014. “A New Government Breaks With The Past in The Papua New Guinea Parliament’s ‘Haus Tambaran.’” Material World: A Global Hub for Thinking about Things. February 9. http://www.materialworldblog.com/2014/02/a-new-government-breaks-with-the-past-in-the-papua-new-guinea-parliaments-haus-tambaran/.
  
-## Key ideas for this week ##+## Lecture outline ##
  
-- Sorcery and witchcraft in anthropology +* Easter around the world
-- Sorcery and witchcraft in PNG +
-- The Sorcery Act 1971 +
-- The modernity of witchcraft+
  
 +* Christianity and colonialism 
 +  * Spanish colonialism of the New World
 +  * 19th century British colonialism and the concept of "native protection"
 +  * Christianity in postcolonial PNG and elsewhere
  
 +* Christianity and anthropology
 +  * Fenella Cannell in southern Luzon, Philippines
 +  * Joel Robbins in Urapmin, Papua New Guinea
  
 +* Christianity as culture
 +  * The language ideology of Christianity
 +  * The conflict of individualism and relationalism as values
  
  
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