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Adaptive Strategies and Indigenous Resistance to Protestantism in Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Susana Andrade
Susana Andrade*
Affiliation:
Centro de Planificación y de Estudios Sociales, Quito
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During the last ten years I have been working on the process of conversion to Protestantism of the indigenous people in Chimborazo province, Ecuador. Protestant evangelization in Ecuador started in the early twentieth century, but it is only in the last thirty years that the process of conversion of the indigenous people has become a large-scale one. During the first sixty years of evangelical activity North American missionaries from the Evangelical Missionary Union baptized only four natives in Chimborazo province. This period was marked by strenuous resistance and rejection of the new religion. Accounts given by missionaries of the period describe the disasters and difficulties that the first evangelizing mission suffered. It was only the conviction that lost souls had to be saved that helped them overcome adversities and later achieve amazing results.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 47 , Issue 187 , September 1999 , pp. 38 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 1999

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