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Pima-Papago Christianity
Journal of the Southwest • 30 (2) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 132-167
By: Bahr, Donald M..
Abstract
This paper consists of two parts. Part 1 describes the history of Christianity among the Pima-Papago, while part 2 places today's fiestas in the context of the rest of today's (i, e., late twentieth century)Christianity. The key point of the first part is that the ancestors of today's people Christianized themselves without the aid of missionaries in roughly the fifty years from 1850-1900, before their reservations were fully established. Therefore, today's practices are a folk creation, or at least stem from a fifty-year era of folk Christianization (p. 133). This is the basic premise of this article, which is explained more fully in the text.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2010
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1600-1980
- Coverage Place
- Southern Arizona, United States; Northern Sonora, Mexico
- Notes
- Donald M. Bahr
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-167)
- LCCN
- 87643843
- LCSH
- Tohono O'odham Indians