EAN: 9783170349483

DIE RELIGIONEN DER MENSCHHEIT 71 INDIGENE R...

There are three apparently contradictory aspects that define the religious features of South
America: traditionally strong Catholicism  Protestant and Pentecostal denominations that have
gained strength since the 19th century  and religions of pre-Columbian origin that have
survived and developed further. This volume offers a descriptive account of these strands as
the living religions of people today  which can be inquired into by ethnologists and religious
scholars. In the process  the book divides South America into two religious areas: the Central
Andes region  where pre-European traditions were already incorporated into local Christianity
in many places during the colonial period  and the area east of the Andes (and to a lesser
extent the northern and southern Andes)  where separate religions survived more autonomously 
but lost a large number of their adherents in the 20th century due to new  intensive Christian
missionary work.

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