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Author Orta, Andrew.

Title Catechizing culture : missionaries, Aymara, and the "new evangelization" / Andrew Orta.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346) and index.
Summary Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the Aymara must now become more Indian. This groundbreaking study of the contemporary encounter between Catholic missionaries and Aymara Indians is the first ethnography to focus both on the evangelizers and the evangelized. Andrew Orta explores the pastoral shift away from liberation theology that dominated Latin American missionization up until the mid-1980s to the recent "theology of inculturation," which upholds the beliefs and practices of a supposedly pristine Aymara culture as indigenous expressions of a more universal Christianity. Addressing essential questions in cultural anthropology, religious studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies, Catechizing Culture is a sophisticated documentation of the widespread shift from the politics of class to the politics of ethnicity and multiculturalism.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Converting Difference; Part 1: Entangled Communities; 1. Andean Locality Revisited; 2. Missionary Modernity in the Postwar Andes; 3. Local Missions, Global Alters; Part 2: Syncretic Subjects; 4. Syncretic Subjects:The Politics of Personhood; 5. Alejandro's House:The Porous Production of Locality; Part 3: Locality Dismembered and Remembered; 6. Seductive Strangers and Saturated Symbols; 7. Burying the Past; Conclusion: Locating the Future; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
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Subject Catholic Church -- Missions -- Bolivia.
Catholic Church.
Missions.
Bolivia.
Catholic Church -- Bolivia.
Catholic Church.
Aymara Indians -- Religion.
Aymara Indians -- Religion.
Aymara Indians -- Missions.
Aymara Indians -- Missions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Orta, Andrew. Catechizing culture. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 0231130686 0231130694 (DLC) 2004047844 (OCoLC)54897375
ISBN 023150392X (electronic book)
9780231503921 (electronic book)
9780231130691
0231130694
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9780231130684
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