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1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
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Vitality of indigenous religions
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Vitality of indigenous religions.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- United States -- History.
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Catholic Church. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Indians -- Religion.
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Indians -- Religion. |
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Indians -- Missions.
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Indians -- Missions. |
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Protestant churches -- America -- History.
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Protestant churches. |
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America. |
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Christianity and culture -- America -- History.
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Christianity and culture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958-
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Wright, Robin, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Native Christians. Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, ©2009 (DLC) 2008023030 |
| ISBN |
9780754663553 (Cloth) |
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0754663558 (Cloth) |
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9780754696476 (electronic book) |
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0754696472 (electronic book) |
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