Native Christians : modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas /

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

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TextSeries: Vitality of indigenous religionsPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, γ̐ư2009. Publication details: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780754663553
0754663558
9780754696476
0754696472

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Native Christians.DDC classification:

277.0089/97 22

LOC classification:

E59.R38 N38 2009eb

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Contents:

Towards a comparative study of Jesuit missions and indigenous peoples in seventeenth-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 Vilaça -- Shamans and missionaries : transitions and transformations in the Kivalliq coastal area / Frédéric 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 Guaraná project among the Sateré-Mawé, Brazil / Wolfgang Kapfhammer.

Summary: 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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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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