Praying, Prayer Ideologies and Christian Inter-denominational Relations in Indigenous Amazonia

Bibliographic Data

ID3784356
AuthorsMinna Opas (0000-0001-6465-6728, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume194
Pages53-73
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchives de sciences sociales des religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0335-5985 • E-ISSN: 1777-5825
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/assr.58992
OpenAlexW3215850487
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited50

The history of Christianity in Amazonia until the present day is replete with controversies and negotiations over right kind of Christianity. Missionaries representing a variety of different denominations have considered local indigenous forms of Christianity as inauthentic. The question of real Christianity has also coloured local level inter-denominational relations and led to ruptures in social cohesion. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork among the Peruvian Yine people, this article examines problems over orthodoxy in the context of Amazonian indigenous Christianities. It focuses on the grassroots-level inter-denominational relations between Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal Yine Christians and shows, how Yine prayer practices work as an important field for negotiating social relations and legitimate Christianity. The article argues that these negotiations are fundamentally tied to Amazonian socio-cosmological logics concerning corporeality, and that they can be profitably studied from the perspective of prayer ideology

Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Christianity · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Evangelism · Ideology · Indigenous · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Prayer · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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