Catechizing Culture : Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization" /
Orta, Andrew
Catechizing Culture : Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization" / Andrew Orta. - 1 online resource (376 p.) : 26 photos, 5 maps, 2 figures
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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231130691 9780231503921
10.7312/orta13068 doi
Aymara Indians--Missions.
Aymara Indians--Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
F2230.2.A9O77 2004eb
266.08998324
Catechizing Culture : Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization" / Andrew Orta. - 1 online resource (376 p.) : 26 photos, 5 maps, 2 figures
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231130691 9780231503921
10.7312/orta13068 doi
Aymara Indians--Missions.
Aymara Indians--Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
F2230.2.A9O77 2004eb
266.08998324