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God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador / Kathryn T. Long.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]Description: xix, 446 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190608989
  • 0190608986
Subject(s):
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A missionary legend takes shape, 1956-1959. "Palm Beach" on the Curaray River -- The home front -- Part II: Tensions and competition, 1956-1958. A new departure -- The next steps -- An invitation to meet Dayomae's kin -- Part III: Life in Tewaeno, 1958-1968. Peaceful contact -- A parting of the ways -- The (apparently) idyllic years -- Part IV: Relocation, 1968-1973. Big oil, Waorani relocation, and polio -- Early anti-mission sentiment -- Part V: Access, 1974-1982. An anthropologist arrives -- Breaking a pattern of dependence -- ¡Fuera de aquí! (Get out of here!) -- Land, literacy, and "Quichua-ization" -- Catholics and the Waorani -- Leaving Ecuador -- Part VI: Transitions, 1982-1994. The Aguarico martyrs -- The New Testament in Wao Tededo -- David and Goliath -- Saving the rainforest -- Epilogue: the twenty-first century.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women - the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another - with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century.God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A missionary legend takes shape, 1956-1959. "Palm Beach" on the Curaray River -- The home front -- Part II: Tensions and competition, 1956-1958. A new departure -- The next steps -- An invitation to meet Dayomae's kin -- Part III: Life in Tewaeno, 1958-1968. Peaceful contact -- A parting of the ways -- The (apparently) idyllic years -- Part IV: Relocation, 1968-1973. Big oil, Waorani relocation, and polio -- Early anti-mission sentiment -- Part V: Access, 1974-1982. An anthropologist arrives -- Breaking a pattern of dependence -- ¡Fuera de aquí! (Get out of here!) -- Land, literacy, and "Quichua-ization" -- Catholics and the Waorani -- Leaving Ecuador -- Part VI: Transitions, 1982-1994. The Aguarico martyrs -- The New Testament in Wao Tededo -- David and Goliath -- Saving the rainforest -- Epilogue: the twenty-first century.

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