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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454083703321

Titolo

Native Christians [[electronic resource] ] : modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas / / edited by Aparecida Vilaça, Robin M. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-317-08986-3

1-317-08985-5

1-282-05458-9

9786612054587

0-7546-9647-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Vitality of indigenous religions

Altri autori (Persone)

VilaçaAparecida <1958->

WrightRobin <1950->

Disciplina

270.08998

277.0089/97

Soggetti

Indians - Religion

Indians - Missions

Christianity and culture - America - History

Protestant churches - America - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Towards a Comparative Study of Jesuit Missions and Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth-Century Canada and Paraguay; 2 Christians: A Transforming Concept in Peruvian Amazonia; 3 'Before We Were All Catholics': Changing Religion in Apiao, Southern Chile; 4 Money, Loans and Faith: Narratives and Images of Wealth, Fertility, and Salvation in the Northern Andes; 5 The Re-Invention of Mapuche Male Shamans as Catholic Priests: Legitimizing Indigenous Co-Gender Identities in Modern Chile

6 Protestant Evangelism and the Transformability of Amerindian Bodies in Northeastern Amazonia7 The Skin of History: Paumari Perspectives



on Conversion and Transformation; 8 Conversion, Predation and Perspective; 9 Shamans and Missionaries: Transitions and Transformations in the Kivalliq Coastal Area; 10 Baniwa Art: The Baniwa Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sustainable Development; 11 Divine Child and Trademark: Economy, Morality, and Cultural Sustainability of a Guaraná Project among the Sateré-Mawé, Brazil; Afterword; Index of Peoples; Index of Authors; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Native Christians 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. While Catholic missions have emphasized the 'civilizing' process, teaching the Indians the skills which they were expected to exercise within the context of a new societal model, the Protestants have centered their work on promoting a deep internal change, or 'con