Indigenous churches : anthropology of Christianity in Lowland South America / Élise Capredon, César Ceriani Cernadas, Minna Opas, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capredon, Élise, editor, contributor.

Ceriani Cernadas, César, editor, contributor.

Opas, Minna, editor, contributor.

Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- writer of foreword.

Series:

Contemporary anthropology of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Religious life--Amazon River Region.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Religious life--Gran Chaco.

Christianity--Amazon River Region.

Christianity.

Christianity--Gran Chaco.

Anthropology of religion--Amazon River Region.

Anthropology of religion.

Anthropology of religion--Gran Chaco.

Amazon River Region--Church history.

Amazon River Region.

Gran Chaco--Church history.

Gran Chaco.

South America--Gran Chaco.

Genre:

Church history.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 235 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

"This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices, leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the creation and diversification of Indigenous churches. Instead of focusing on the study of missionary ideologies and praxis, the book explores Indigenous peoples' interpretations of Christianity and the institutional arrangements they make to create, expand, or dismantle their churches. In doing so, the volume offers a South American contribution to the theoretical project of the anthropology of Christianity, especially as it relates to the issue of denominationalism and inter-denominational relations"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction. Indigenous churches-Christian affiliations and inter-denominational relationships in Lowland South America / Élise Capredon, César Ceriani Cernadas, Minna Opas

Floating charisma : leaderships, denominations, and materialities in Argentine Chaco Indigenous churches / César Ceriani Cernadas

"They Are Very Different from Us" : institutional form, leadership, and inter-denominational relations in Amazonia / Minna Opas

Christianity, materiality, and the critique of modernity in the Colombian Amazon / Esteban Rozo Pabón

Indigenous Evangelicals, Adventists, and Catholics : intersections of Christianity and Shamanism on the Brazil/French Guiana Amazonian border / Artionka Capiberibe

Danzas de alabanza (Praise Dances) : Pentecostal ritual or Shamanic resurgence? / Florencia Tola, Emilio Robledo

Off the Baptist path : Christian becoming in Indigenous Amazonia / Luis García Briceño

Alliances and divisions within an Indigenous evangelical movement : the case of Shipibo-Conibo Churches (Peruvian Amazonia) / Élise Capredon

Ethnography of uneasiness : violence and religion among the Guarani of the Andean Foothills in the 1970s, Argentina / Mariana Espinosa

Afterword. Ethnography of the "Christian Paths" in Indigenous South American Lowlands : between institutions, histories, and materialities / Pablo Wright.

Notes:

Foreword by Aparecida Vilac̦a.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783031144936

3031144937

OCLC:

1334883470