Indigenous Churches

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.

Focuses on the dynamics of indigenous lowland South American Christianities Brings studies of Christianity in Amazonia and Gran Chaco into dialogue for the first time Provides a South American contribution to the theoretical project of the anthropology of Christianity

Auteur
Élise Capredon is Postdoctoral Researcher at Mondes Américains (EHESS-CNRS, France) and member of the ANR project "AMAZ".

César Ceriani Cernadas is Senior Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

Minna Opas is Senior Lecturer in Study of Religion and Associate Professor of Anthropology of Religion at the University of Turku, Finland.

Contenu

1. INTRODUCTION (Capredon, Ceriani, Opas): Indigenous Churches: Between Denominationalism, Ritual Life and Religious Alliances.-PART I: CHRISTIAN MATERIALITIES AND LEADERSHIP.- 2. CERIANI CERNADAS, César: Floating Charism: Leaderships, Denominations and Materialities in Argentine Chaco Indigenous Churches .- 3. OPAS, Minna: They are very different from us: Institutional form, leadership and interdenominational relations in Amazonia.- 4. ROZO PABÓN, Esteban: Christianity, Materiality, and the Critique of Modernity in the Colombian Amazon.- PART II: CHRISTIAN AFFILIATIONS, RITUALS AND SHAMANISM.- 5. CAPIBERIBE, Artionka: Evangelicals, Adventists and Catholics: Relational Indigenous Christianity of the Amazonian Frontier Brazil / French Guiana.- 6. TOLA, Florencia & ROBLEDO, Emilio: Dances of Praise: Pentecostal Ritual or Shamanic Resurgence?.- PART III: SCHISMS AND ALLIANCES.- 7. CAPREDON, Élise: Alliances and Divisions within an Indigenous Evangelical Movement: the Case of Shipibo-Conibo Churches (Peruvian Amazon).- 8. ESPINOSA, Mariana: Ethnography of uneasiness. Violence and Religion among the Guarani of the Andean Foothills in the 1970s, Argentina.- 9. GARCÍA BRICEÑO, Luis: Off the Baptist Path: Christian Becoming among Venezuelan Ye'kwanas.