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Native Christians : modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas / edited by Aparecida Vilaça, Robin M. Wright.
Penn Museum Library E59.R38 N38 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Vitality of indigenous religions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians--Religion.
- Indians.
- Indians--Missions.
- Christianity and culture--America--History.
- Christianity and culture.
- Catholic Church--United States--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Protestant churches.
- History.
- United States.
- Protestant churches--America--History.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780754663553
- 0754663558
- OCLC:
- 230915827
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