Catechizing culture : missionaries, Aymara, and the "new evangelization" /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Orta, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Missions > Bolivia.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Missions > Bolivie.
Catholic Church
Aymara Indians > Religion.
Aymara Indians > Missions.
Aymara > Religion.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Aymara Indians > Missions
Aymara Indians > Religion
Missions
Bolivia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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