The Dayuma Story

The Dayuma Story
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 1494072742
ISBN-13 : 9781494072742
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dayuma Story by : Ethel Emily Wallis

This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.

Dayuma

Dayuma
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Publisher : International Adventure
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0927545918
ISBN-13 : 9780927545914
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Dayuma by : Ethel Emily Wallis

Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, Roger Youderian, and Ed McCully chose to lay down their lives on a sandy beach in Ecuador. Their lives and sacrifice come full circle in the breathtaking true story of Dayuma. Violent, unexpected death was a way of life for the mysterious Waorani tribe living deep in the Ecuadorian jungle. When her father is brutally speared, young Dayuma is faced with a clear yet frightening choice: flee to the outside world to those thought to be cannibals or stay in the jungle to face certain death from the spears of the tribal killers. Dayuma: Life Under Waorani Spears is the unforgettable story of one girl's odyssey into the unknown. Her eventual encounter with Christ ultimately changed her life and forever altered the destiny of her people. Dayuma is a vivid, lasting testimony to the power of the love of God and the cross to reach beyond any barrier.

Rachel Saint

Rachel Saint
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Publisher : YWAM Publishing
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 1576583376
ISBN-13 : 9781576583371
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Rachel Saint by : Janet Benge

A biography of Rachel Saint, a missionary who worked among the Auca Indians of Ecuador after members of that tribe murdered her brother and four other missionaries.

God in the Rainforest

God in the Rainforest
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9780190609009
ISBN-13 : 0190609001
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis God in the Rainforest by : Kathryn T. Long

In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization.

Unfolding Destinies

Unfolding Destinies
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1572930411
ISBN-13 : 9781572930414
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Unfolding Destinies by : Olive Fleming Liefeld

God in the Rainforest

God in the Rainforest
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9780190608996
ISBN-13 : 0190608994
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis God in the Rainforest by : Kathryn T. Long

In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization.

Aucas Downriver; Dayuma's Story Today

Aucas Downriver; Dayuma's Story Today
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001751836
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Aucas Downriver; Dayuma's Story Today by : Ethel Emily Wallis

Fluent Selves

Fluent Selves
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780803265141
ISBN-13 : 080326514X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluent Selves by : Suzanne Oakdale

Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume’s exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology. Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the “Western individual” and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of “myth” and “history,” the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.

Daughters of the Church

Daughters of the Church
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 558
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ISBN-10 : 9780310877462
ISBN-13 : 0310877466
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Daughters of the Church by : Ruth A. Tucker

Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very fact that readers may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been guilty of. This is a book about women. It is a setting straight off the record -- a restoring of balance to history that has repeatedly played down the significance of the contributions of women to the theology, the witness, the movements, and the growth of the church. An exegetical study of relevant Scripture passages offers stimulating thought for discussion and for serious reevaluation of historical givens. This volume is enriched by pictures, appendixes, bibliography, and indexes. Like many of the women whose stories it tells, this book has a subdued strength that should not be underestimated.

The Anthropology of Christianity

The Anthropology of Christianity
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780822388159
ISBN-13 : 0822388154
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Anthropology of Christianity by : Fenella Cannell

This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell asserts that anthropological theory carries within it ideas profoundly shaped by this rejection. Because of this, anthropology has been less successful in considering Christianity as an ethnographic object than it has in considering other religions. This collection is designed to advance a more subtle and less self-limiting anthropological study of Christianity. The contributors examine the contours of Christianity among diverse groups: Catholics in India, the Philippines, and Bolivia, and Seventh-Day Adventists in Madagascar; the Swedish branch of Word of Life, a charismatic church based in the United States; and Protestants in Amazonia, Melanesia, and Indonesia. Highlighting the wide variation in what it means to be Christian, the contributors reveal vastly different understandings and valuations of conversion, orthodoxy, Scripture, the inspired word, ritual, gifts, and the concept of heaven. In the process they bring to light how local Christian practices and beliefs are affected by encounters with colonialism and modernity, by the opposition between Catholicism and Protestantism, and by the proximity of other religions and belief systems. Together the contributors show that it not sufficient for anthropologists to assume that they know in advance what the Christian experience is; each local variation must be encountered on its own terms. Contributors. Cecilia Busby, Fenella Cannell, Simon Coleman, Peter Gow, Olivia Harris, Webb Keane, Eva Keller, David Mosse, Danilyn Rutherford, Christina Toren, Harvey Whitehouse