Between rupture and continuity the politics of conversion in the colombian amazon
This paper explores the politics of conversion in the Colombian Amazon, comparing missionary narratives of conversion with indigenous accounts of conversion. It shows how conversion to Christianity articulates new meanings of indigeneity today in Amazonia. Using ethnographic evidence, documents and...
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ir-10336-233102022-05-02T12:37:17Z Between rupture and continuity the politics of conversion in the colombian amazon Rozo, Esteban Amazonia Christianity Conversion Indigeneity Missionaries This paper explores the politics of conversion in the Colombian Amazon, comparing missionary narratives of conversion with indigenous accounts of conversion. It shows how conversion to Christianity articulates new meanings of indigeneity today in Amazonia. Using ethnographic evidence, documents and interviews, the paper demonstrates that neither the missionaries nor the indigenous populations view conversion only as rupture. Although they recognize the transformational process involved in conversion, they both emphasize cultural continuity, albeit for different reasons. It also analyses how indigenous pastors and missionaries combine narratives of rupture and narratives of continuity while articulating a new kind of indigeneity (Christian indigeneity), and a specific politics of conversion. In this context, politics of conversion articulates emergent regimes of indigeneity that postulate strong complementarities between Christianity and indigenous values. ©2018 koninklijke brill nv, leiden. 2018 2020-05-26T00:01:04Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 18748945 18748937 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23310 https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03003007 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Brill Academic Publishers instname:Universidad del Rosario |
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This paper explores the politics of conversion in the Colombian Amazon, comparing missionary narratives of conversion with indigenous accounts of conversion. It shows how conversion to Christianity articulates new meanings of indigeneity today in Amazonia. Using ethnographic evidence, documents and interviews, the paper demonstrates that neither the missionaries nor the indigenous populations view conversion only as rupture. Although they recognize the transformational process involved in conversion, they both emphasize cultural continuity, albeit for different reasons. It also analyses how indigenous pastors and missionaries combine narratives of rupture and narratives of continuity while articulating a new kind of indigeneity (Christian indigeneity), and a specific politics of conversion. In this context, politics of conversion articulates emergent regimes of indigeneity that postulate strong complementarities between Christianity and indigenous values. ©2018 koninklijke brill nv, leiden. |
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Between rupture and continuity the politics of conversion in the colombian amazon |
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Between rupture and continuity the politics of conversion in the colombian amazon |
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Between rupture and continuity the politics of conversion in the colombian amazon |
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