TY - BOOK AU - Long,Kathryn TI - God in the rainforest: a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador SN - 9780190608989 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Missionaries KW - Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) KW - Biography KW - Indians of South America KW - Missions N1 - 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 ER -