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God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador Cover Image Book Book

God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador

Long, Kathryn 1950- (author.).

Summary: In 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780190608989
  • ISBN: 0190608986
  • ISBN: 9780190608996
  • ISBN: 9780190609009
  • ISBN: 9780190609016
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: "Palm Beach" on the Curaray River -- The home front -- A new departure -- The next steps -- An invitation to meet Dayomae's kin -- Peaceful contact -- A parting of the ways -- The (apparently) idyllic years -- Big oil, Waorani relocation, and polio -- Early anti-mission sentiment -- An anthropologist arrives -- Breaking a pattern of dependence -- ¡Fuera de aquí! (Get out of here!) -- Land, literacy, and "Quichua-ization" -- Catholics and the Waorani -- Leaving Ecuador -- The Aguarico martyrs -- The New Testament in Wao tededo -- David and Goliath -- Saving the Rainforest -- Epilogue: the twenty-first century.

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Genre: Biographies.
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