Native Christians

Native Christians

Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Wright, Robin M.; Talamantez, Ms Ines; Wright, Robin M.; Adogame, Dr. Afe; Vilaca, Aparecida; Harvey, Dr. Graham

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2009

266

Dura

Inglês

9780754663553

15 a 20 dias

Reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting.
Contents: Introduction; Towards a comparative study of Jesuit missions and indigenous peoples in 17th-century Canada and Paraguay, Allan Greer; Christians. A transforming concept in Peruvian Amazonia, Peter Gow; 'Before we were all Catholics': changing religion in Apiao, Southern Chile, Giovanna Bacchiddu; Money, loans and faith: narratives and images of wealth, fertility, and salvation in the Northern Andes, Emilia Ferraro; The re-invention of Mapuche male shamans as Catholic priests: legitimizing indigenous co-gender identities in modern Chile, Ana Mariella Bacigalupo; Protestant evangelism and the transformability of Amerindian bodies in Northeastern Amazonia, Vanessa Elisa Grotti; The skin of history: Paumari perspectives on conversion and transformation, Oiara Bonilla; Conversion, predation and perspective, Aparecida VilaA a; Shamans and missionaries. Transitions and transformations in the Kivalliq coastal area, FrA(c)dA(c)ric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten; Baniwa art: the Baniwa Protestant ethic and the spirit of sustainable development, Robin M. Wright; Divine Child and trademark: economy, morality and cultural sustainability of a Guarana project among the SaterA(c)-MawA(c), Brazil, Wolfgang Kapfhammer; Afterword, Joel Robbins; Indexes.
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