Catechizing Culture : : Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization" / / Andrew Orta.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 26 photos, 5 maps, 2 figures
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Ìntroduction: Converting Difference --
I. Entangled Communities --
II. Syncretic Subjects --
III. Locality Dismembered and Remembered --
Conclusion: Locating the Future --
Notes --
Glossary --
References --
Index
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 Indians is the first ethnography to focus both on the evangelizers and the evangelized. Andrew Orta explores the pastoral shift away from liberation theology that dominated Latin American missionization up until the mid-1980s to the recent "theology of inculturation," which upholds the beliefs and practices of a supposedly pristine Aymara culture as indigenous expressions of a more universal Christianity. Addressing essential questions in cultural anthropology, religious studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies, Catechizing Culture is a sophisticated documentation of the widespread shift from the politics of class to the politics of ethnicity and multiculturalism.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780231503921
9783110442472
DOI:10.7312/orta13068
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Orta.