Off the Baptist Path
Christian Becoming in Indigenous Amazonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20046064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luis García Briceño (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 155-173 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Indigenous Churches (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-031-14494-3_7 |
| OpenAlex | W4313353097 |
| ISBN | 9783031144943 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
By looking at a series of accusations of Pentecostalism launched by some Baptist Ye’kwana pastors against other congregations in 2017, this article explores how the forms of Ye’kwana Christianity, primarily shaped by Baptist evangelicalism, are reproduced and sustained among the Ye’kwana Christians of the Venezuelan Amazon. And how these are framed within a language of paths. It will be argued that the way Ye’kwana people, at least older generations, conceive of their Christian lives, of Protestant denominations, and of social life more generally, as paths, reveals a preoccupation with the question of how difference “within” is produced. Their answer to this issue—namely, that difference emerges out of a linear, continuous process of divergences and confluences—coincides with anthropological readings of denomination production and of social life formation that emphasize notions of becoming over those of ontological positioning. This possibility might sit uncomfortably in the current Amazonianist literature on Indigenous Christianities, which has read the latter precisely as mainly a matter of ontological relations centered in the body. Thus, this chapter ultimately aims to highlight some of the limitations of this literature to fully grasp Indigenous experiences of Christianity and denominations in the Amazon
Amazon rainforest · Christianity · Indigenous · Protestantism · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Key Writings
Forgetting Conversion
Native Christians
The Marble and the Myrthe
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality
The Club-Fighters of the Amazon
Keeping Boundaries in Motion
Virtual Christianity in an age of nominalist anthropology
Opening a Path with Papers
Dividuality in Amazonia
After the Denominozoic
Writing on Stone; Writing on Paper
Individual and Society in Guiana
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |