... group of people in terms of the model of evental change I have drawn from Badiou. The group in question is the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a group with whom I carried out extensive ethnographic research in the early 1990s. Many of the themes that mark Urapmin conversion...

... successors or historical-teleological capstones. This typology of world religion (or at least of Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity) is predicated on a set of character- istics that Robbins sees as being particularly apropos to what he found in his fieldwork with the newly Christianized Urapmin...