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Evangelical Protestantism and Indigenous Populations 1
Author(s) -
GROS CHRISTIAN
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.1999.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - protestantism , reactionary , indigenous , modernity , identity (music) , population , religious studies , ethnology , sociology , political science , philosophy , law , demography , aesthetics , biology , politics , ecology
– The response of the Indian population to Protestant proselytism is neither passive nor impotent, and far from playing a destructive or reactionary role, Protestantism provides an unsuspected combination of identity markers and modernity, thus occupying a space left open by Catholicism.