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Staying put -- The Loyalist prison experience -- Class matters -- Fighting with history instead of guns -- Loyalism and the voluntary sector -- Loyalist feuds -- Immigrants, paramilitaries, and turf -- What to do with the paramilitaries?
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In: Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 224-252
ISSN: 1360-0524
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 348-354
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Political geography, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 348-355
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 26, Heft 1, S. 88-111
ISSN: 1470-9856
Protestantism has grown rapidly among Latin America's indigenous population since the 1980s. Despite Protestantism's attractiveness to indigenous people, the literature has historically regarded it as incompatible with indigenous culture. Recent scholarship has moved beyond this assertion, focusing instead on the complexities of conversion and the paradoxes associated with it. Most scholars now argue that Protestantism can be compatible with indigenous culture. It is unclear, however, how Protestant institutions came to have a compatible relationship with indigenous culture. Indeed, Protestant churches/clergy continue to eschew many of the practices associated with indigenous culture. In this paper I address this question by examining the work of Protestant missionaries. I choose missionaries as my point of analysis because they were crucial in establishing Protestantism in the region, and thus the base point from which it is defined, practiced, and altered. As a case study I examine mission work in Oaxaca, Mexico. I argue that missionaries have changed both their conversion strategies and tactics for dealing with indigenous traditions. These changes make it easier for indigenous people to convert to Protestantism without rejecting key parts of their culture, and in a few cases by even embracing it. I examine two conversion strategies—group targeting and church planting. I also analyze three tactics missionaries use to negotiate indigenous customs considered 'pagan.' I choose tequio, village fiestas, and language politics because they have historically been sources of conflict between converts and their Catholic neighbours.
In: Cultural studies, Band 16, Heft 5, S. 673-703
ISSN: 1466-4348
In: Key Concepts in Political Geography, S. 124-135