Native Christians : modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas / edited by Aparecida Vilaça and Robin M. Wright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a comparative study of Jesuit missions and indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century Canada and Paraguay / Allan Greer -- Christians : a transforming concept in Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow -- 'Before we were all Catholics' : changing religion in Apiao, southern Chile / Giovanna Bacchiddu -- Money, loans and faith : narratives and images of wealth, fertility, and salvation in the northern Andes / Emilia Ferraro -- The re-invention of Mapuche male shamans as Catholic priests : legitimizing indigenous co-gender identities in modern Chile / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo -- Protestant evangelism and the transformability of Amerindian bodies in northeastern Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti -- The skin of history : Paumari perspectives on conversion and transformation / Oiara Bonilla -- Conversion, predation and perspective / Aparecida Vilaça -- Shamans and missionaries : transitions and transformations in the Kivalliq coastal area / Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten -- Baniwa art : the Baniwa Protestant ethic and the spirit of sustainable development / Robin M. Wright -- Divine child and trademark : economy, morality, and cultural sustainability of a Guaraná project among the Sateré-Mawé, Brazil / Wolfgang Kapfhammer.