Description
Book SynopsisSacrifice and Regeneration focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America.
Trade Review"[
Sacrifice and Regeneration] is very well written and meticulous in its use of archival sources. . . . Every university library should have
Sacrifice and Regeneration, and every Andes expert should buy it."—Henri Gooren,
Hispanic American Historical Review“
Sacrifice and Regeneration provides a novel perspective on religion, Indigenous movements, and race in Latin America more broadly, and one that is attentive to evangelism’s role in the integration and dissolution of caste systems in the first half of the twentieth century. This perspective is pathbreaking.”—Waskar Ari, author of
Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals“
Sacrifice and Regeneration opens a window into global transformations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that brought together two very different groups. Yael Mabat complicates the story of colonialism, demonstrating how North American Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and Andean army veterans together transformed the political and cultural landscape in the Andean highlands.”—Joan Meznar, professor emerita of history at Eastern Connecticut State University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Converts
1. Wars, Indians, and the Peruvian Nation
2. Army Veterans Return to the Highlands
3. Religious Conversion and Racial Regeneration in an Indian Community
4. Religious Conversion and Communal Cohesion
Part 2. Missionaries
5. Seventh-day Adventism and the Foreign Missionary Enterprise, 1850–192
6. Seventh-day Adventists and the Challenge of Modern Times
7. Everyday Sacrifices and Missionaries’ Experiences in the Andean Highlands
Part 3. The Mission
8. Building an “Indian” Mission on the Top of the Andes
9. From the Lake Titicaca “Indian Mission” to “the Lake Titicaca Mission”
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
