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UNINA9910799944803321 |
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Titolo |
Native Christians : modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas / / edited by Aparecida Vilaca and Robin M. Wright |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-59749-7 |
1-317-08986-3 |
1-317-08985-5 |
1-282-05458-9 |
9786612054587 |
0-7546-9647-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Collana |
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Vitality of indigenous religions |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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VilacaAparecida <1958-> |
WrightRobin <1950-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians - Religion |
Indians - Missions |
Christianity and culture - America - History |
Protestant churches - America - History |
Christianity and culture America History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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