Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"

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. A Sophisticated Documentation Of The Widespread Shift From The Politics Of Class To The Politics Of Ethnicity And Multiculturalism. [publisher Web Site]. Introduction : Converting Difference -- Ch. 1. Andean Locality Revisited -- Ch. 2. Missionary Modernity In The Postwar Andes -- Ch. 3. Local Missions, Global Alters -- Ch. 4. Syncretic Subjects : The Politics Of Personhood -- Ch. 5. Alejandro's House : The Porous Production Of Locality -- Ch. 6. Seductive Strangers And Saturated Symbols -- Ch. 7. Burying The Past -- Conclusion : Locating The Future. Andrew Orta. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [329]-346) And Index.