04216nam 2200817Ia 450 991095605020332120251117052020.01-315-59749-71-317-08986-31-317-08985-51-282-05458-997866120545870-7546-9647-210.4324/9781315597492(CKB)1000000000724813(EBL)438515(OCoLC)322349756(SSID)ssj0000208497(PQKBManifestationID)11189314(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208497(PQKBWorkID)10240184(PQKB)11316778(Au-PeEL)EBL438515(CaPaEBR)ebr10281387(CaONFJC)MIL919034(Au-PeEL)EBL5293398(CaONFJC)MIL205458(OCoLC)1027130667(MiAaPQ)EBC438515(MiAaPQ)EBC5293398(OCoLC)952730106(PPN)149773862(FINmELB)ELB161556(EXLCZ)99100000000072481320080530d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNative Christians modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas /edited by Aparecida Vilaca, Robin M. Wright1st ed.Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgatec20091 online resource (267 p.)Vitality of indigenous religionsFirst published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-6355-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 Chile6 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 IndexNative 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 'conVitality of indigenous religions.IndiansReligionIndiansMissionsChristianity and cultureAmericaHistoryProtestant churchesAmericaHistoryIndiansReligion.IndiansMissions.Christianity and cultureHistory.Protestant churchesHistory.270.08998277.0089/97Vilaça Aparecida1958-1862172Wright Robin1950-1314994MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956050203321Native Christians4468394UNINA