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Introducing God in the Devil's paradise / Søren Hvalkof and Peter Aaby: This book is a collection of anthropological essays about Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)/Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), currently the world's largest Protestant missionary society in terms of members sent abroad (Dayton 1976:52).  Words can be used in so many ways / David Stoll: It used to be, sometimes still is and may forever be. Fulfilling the mission / Scott S. Robinson: Three generations of America's finest stock have been preaching a peculiarly anachronistic Christian gospel to Latin America and the Third World at large. The Jesuits and the SIL / William T. Vickers: The Siona-Secoya Indians are slash-and-burn horticulturalists and hunters and gatherers of the Upper Amazon, and inhabit a territory near the confluence of the Aguarico and Napo Rivers in Ecuador and Peru. Higher power / David Stoll: It is no surprise that Satan chose to launch a stiff counterattack in a country where, with an eye to unsettled social conditions, the Summer Institute has tried to complete its mission with special haste. God is an American / Bernard Arcand: Religious beliefs are not very interesting. Missionaries and frontiersmen as agents of social change among the Rikbakca / Robert A. Hahn: Mid-twentieth century saw a resurgence of extractive industry in the Amazon basin; and while the focus of this activity in the region has since shifted, from rubber to minerals and to land clearing for cattle raising, the exploitation of resources in general has intensified and seems likely to sweep the region, thus phasing out another frontier. Go forth to every part of the world and make all nations my disciples / Luis A. Pereira F.: In the propaganda brochure of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (hereafter referred to as the SIL) published under the auspicies of the Ministry of Education and Culture in La Paz under the title "Forjando una Manana Mejor" (Forging a better tomorrow) it is stated: ... The Summer Institute of Linguistics / Richard Chase Smith: The Christian missionary is a sacred institution, and like other sacred institutions, it is protected by a system of defences which teach us not to question or criticize it. SIL and a "New-Found Tribe" / Thomas R. Moore: The most serious charge that has been made against the Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) is that they are responsible for ethnocide in the native communities with which they work. Encounter in Peru / André-Marcel d'Ans: When I arrived in Peru in 1969, I was not familiar with the Summer Institute of Linguistics which did not operate in any of the areas where I had previously worked. Evangelization and political control / Jan Rus and Robert Wasserstrom: In their official history of the Wycliffe Bible Translators (1959), Ethel Wallis and Mary Bennett describe that fateful day in 1936 when William Cameron Townsend first met President Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico. No Tobacco, No Hallelujah / Søren Hvalkof and Peter Aaby: The preceeding articles have examined SIL's work at different stages of its development and under divers social circumstances. | |
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Fulfilling the mission / Scott S. Robinson: Mindless but astute American evangelical anticommunism is today one of the Third World's and native groups' most potent enemies in the evolving struggle for liberation. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Jesuits and the SIL / William T. Vickers: A remaining question, however, is whether missionaries and national planners can be influenced to recognize the inestimable value of maintaining a degree of ethnic diversity within Ecuador's broders, and be motivated to implement tangible programs to protect indigenous land and civil rights. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) Missionaries and frontiersmen as agents of social change among the Rikbakca / Robert A. Hahn: I exchanged medicines and medical information with this nurse, and left myself to her good care for one of many attacks of malaria which I had and was unable to treat myself. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Go forth to every part of the world and make all nations my disciples / Luis A. Pereira F.: The number of those who seek new ways to escape from this isolation and the forced destruction of their indigenous culture, to establish themselves as peasants and thus indentify themselves with a new group is constantly growing. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)SIL and a "New-Found Tribe" / Thomas R. Moore: All non-natives, including anthropologists, who have contact with native peoples are potential agents of ethnocide, and their work should be subject to comparable scrutiny. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Encounter in Peru / André-Marcel d'Ans: ... when the revolution daily gives us the will to solve our problems through efficient, cheap means based on the collective conscience and efforts of our local communities? (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Evangelization and political control / Jan Rus and Robert Wasserstrom: And they will surely bring renewed energy and dedication to the task which lies before them, that is, the task of putting His Word into those "two thousand tongues yet to go". (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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