Catechizing Culture Missionaries, Aymara, and the New Evangelization

Name: Catechizing Culture Missionaries, Aymara, and the New Evangelization
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ISBN: 9780231503921

ISBN-10: 023150392X

ISBN-13: 9780231503921

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrew Orta

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2004
Pages: 376
Language: English

Andrew Orta is associate professor of anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.