Christian Modernisation in Amazonia
Emerging Materialism in Shuar Evangelicals’ Healing Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Tym (0000-0001-5547-9440, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 124-142 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2022.400209 |
| OpenAlex | W4295957316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 32 |
The project of ontological anthropology expounded by Philippe Descola has unexplored merits for a critical and secular anthropology of Christian conversion in indigenous societies. Drawing on Shuar descriptions of their healing practice in a context of medical pluralism in southeast Ecuador, this article argues that for animist peoples, Protestant Evangelicalism constitutes a step toward philosophical materialism or 'naturalism'. While Shuar healing reserves a central place for hallucinogenic plant-induced visions for personal empowerment and shamanic healing, Shuar Evangelicals express a preference for engaging only the material qualities of medicinal plants. This is not, however, the consequence of adopting a disenchanted material cosmology but of a submissive mode of relating to the immaterial aspects of reality normally engaged in ancestral Shuar ontology. The article thereby extends the ontological turn's emphasis on what is known to a consideration of modes of relation to ontological content
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Disengagement theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Materialism · Modernization theory · Ontology · Pluralism · Political science · Religious pluralism · Sociology · Vision · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Religious studies · Ecology
Reconfiguring Humanity in Amazonia
The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley
Crisis at the Border
Conversion and “Community” in Amazonia
How Forests Think
We Have Never Been Modern
Dreaming faith into being
The Empty Seashell
The ethnomedicine of the waorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Crypto-Religion and the Study of Cultural Mixtures
Do Animists Become Naturalists when Converting to Christianity? Discussing an Ontological Turn
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
Of Enemies and Pets
Emplacement and Millennial Expectations in an Era of Development and Globalization
Vibrant Matter
Is conversion a 'colonization of consciousness
Embedded Narratives
Amerindian Sociocosmologies of Northwestern South America
Pentecostal Body Logics
In God's hands
The Christianity of Anthropology
Objects Don't Have Desires
The semi-social mountain
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
The Anthropology of Christianity
Self-Interpretation, Agency, and the Objects of Anthropology
Shamanism, Christianity and Culture Change in Amazonia
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |