Fishers of Men Or Founders of Empire?
Author: David Stoll
Publisher: London : Zed Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : Cultural Survival ; Westport, Conn., U.S.A. : U.S. distributor, Lawrence Hill
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
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Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca
Author: Kathleen M. McIntyre
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0826360254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating book Kathleen M. McIntyre traces intra-village conflicts stemming from Protestant conversion in southern Mexico and successfully demonstrates that both Protestants and Catholics deployed cultural identity as self-defense in clashes over local power and authority. McIntyre’s study approaches religious competition through an examination of disputes over tequio (collective work projects) and cargo (civil-religious hierarchy) participation. By framing her study between the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Zapatista uprising of 1994, she demonstrates the ways Protestant conversion fueled regional and national discussions over the state’s conceptualization of indigenous citizenship and the parameters of local autonomy. The book’s timely scholarship is an important addition to the growing literature on transnational religious movements, gender, and indigenous identity in Latin America.
An Amazonian Myth and Its History
Author: Peter Gow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780199241965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Gow unites the ethnographic data collected by the fieldwork methods invented by Malinowski with Levi-Strauss's analyses of the relations between myth and time. His book is an analysis of a century of social transformation in an indigenous Amazonian society, the Piro people of PeruvianAmazonia, taking as its starting point a single myth told to the author by a Piro man. Gow explores Piro history and ethnography outwards into the domains of myth-telling in general, and following the logic of certain important myths, further out into important domains of Piro experience such asvisual art, shamanry and girls' initiation ritual. All of these domains, like the myths themselves, have been demonstrably changing over the period since the 1880s. The book then shows how these changes are in fact transformations of transformations, changes in social forms that are intrinsicallyabout change. The logic of these changes are then followed through the historical circumstances of Piro people from the 1880s to the 1980s, to show how the intrinsically transformational nature of Piro social forms led them to respond in the ways that they did to the coming of rubber bosses,missionaries, and film-makers.This book makes an important contribution to debates in anthropology on the nature of history and social change, as well as addressing neglected areas such as myth, visual art, and the methodological issues involved in addressing fieldwork and archival data.
God in the Rainforest
Author: Kathryn T. Long
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-10
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0190608994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
For the Gospel's Sake
Author: Boone Aldridge
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1467449385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformed take on the amazing growth of a very unusual missionary organization The two-sided mission organization comprising Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics is a paradox that begs for an explanation. The Summer Institute has long been doing laudable linguistic, humanitarian work in many countries, while Wycliffe has been one of the largest, fastest growing, and most controversial Christian missionary enterprises in the world. In this wide-ranging study Boone Aldridge—a religious historian and twenty-year insider at WBT-SIL—looks back at the organization’s early years, from its inception in the 1930s to the death of its visionary founder, William Cameron Townsend, in 1982. He situates the iconic institution within the evolving landscape of mid-twentieth-century evangelicalism, examines its complex and occasionally confusing policies, and investigates the factors that led, despite persistent criticism from many sides, to its remarkable rise to prominence.
Kenneth L. Pike: An Evangelical Mind
Author: Boone Aldridge
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-12-07
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1725293757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography examines the life of a most unusual twentieth-century evangelical, Kenneth L. “Ken” Pike (1912–2000), who served with the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Pike began his missionary career as a Bible translator, but he went on to become a world-class linguist who made his mark on the science of linguistics and the study of indigenous languages around the world. Known among linguists and anthropologists for his theoretical contributions, this volume seeks to bring Pike to a wider audience by illuminating his life as a key evangelical figure, one who often broke with conventional evangelical constraints to pursue the life of the mind as a Christian intellectual and scholar. Here is a story of how one evangelical Christian man served the global church, the scientific community, and the world’s indigenous peoples with his entire heart, soul, and mind.
Reflections on Sociology and Theology
Author: David Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780198273844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart II: Practical Issues discusses sociological and practical issues of interest to theologians, such as peace studies, Christian Unity, and the nature of religious comment on politics.
Evangelism and Apostasy
Author: Kurt Derek Bowen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780773513792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Evangelism and Apostasy, the first sociological survey of Evangelicals in present-day Mexico, Kurt Bowen evaluates the appeal, character, and future growth of the Evangelical community.
The Politics of Linguistics
Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-03-15
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0226577228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguists in the past two centuries have, for the most part, approached language as an autonomous entity; their practice has been to study languages without considering the culture, society, or beliefs of the speakers. "Autonomous linguistics" has been attacked from both the left and the right. Critics on the left (in particular Marxists) argue that the separation of language from its societal context reinforces the status quo by downplaying the role of language as an instrument of ideology and social control. Critics on the right object to the value-free analyses of individual languages required by the autonomous approach and to the idea that all languages merit equal attention. The Politics of Linguistics surveys two centuries of debate over autonomy. The discussion includes the political implications of the birth of the modern field of linguistics in the Romantic movement, the views of Marx and Engels on language, the attack on structural linguistics by both Hitler and Stalin, the role of Christian missionary groups and the military in building the field in the United States, and the relation between Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories and his political views. Frederick J. Newmeyer demonstrates that external political demonstrates that external political currents have often influenced the relative popularity of the autonomous approach to language. He argues that autonomous linguistics, far from being inconsistent with progressive political goals, can be creatively applied to the fulfillment of such goals.
The New Shape of World Christianity
Author: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0830828478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNoll makes a compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world.
