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Sacrifice and regeneration : Seventh-Day Adventism and religious transformation in the Andes /

"At the dawn of the twentieth century, while Lima's aristocrats hotly debated the future of a nation filled with "Indians," thousands of Aymara and Quechua Indians left the pews of the Catholic Church and were baptized into Seventh-day Adventism. One of the most staggering Christ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mabat, Yael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1
  • 1. Wars, Indians, and the Peruvian Nation
  • 2. Army Veterans Return to the Highlands
  • 3. Religious Conversion and Racial Regeneration in an Indian Community
  • 4. Religious Conversion and Communal Cohesion
  • Part 2
  • 5. Seventh-day Adventism and the Foreign Missionary Enterprise, 1850-1920
  • 6. Seventh-day Adventists and the Challenge of Modern Times
  • 7. Everyday Sacrifices and Missionaries' Experiences in the Andean Highlands
  • Part 3
  • 8. Building an "Indian" Mission on the Top of the Andes
  • 9. From the Lake Titicaca "Indian Mission" to "the Lake Titicaca Mission"
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index