Catechizing Culture [electronic resource] : Missionaries, Aymara and the New Evangelization

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orta, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aymara Indians--Missions.

Aymara Indians--Religion.

Local Subjects:

Aymara Indians--Missions.

Aymara Indians--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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 In

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

818856566