Abstract

MANSILLA, Miguel Ángel; ORELLANA URTUBIA, Luis  and  PANOTT, Nicolás. Chilean Pentecostalism in the Aymara and Quechua Spaces of Bolivia (1938-1960). Secuencia [online]. 2020, n.107, e1746.  Epub June 15, 2020. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i107.1746.

This article seeks to analyze the genesis of the relationship between Chilean Pentecostalism and Andean culture, particularly Bolivian culture, as a valid religious option in the cultural context. Theoretically, we rely on Clifford Geertz, for whom religion includes the objective and subjective tradition as well as a symbolic and ostensive view of beliefs. Methodologically, Fuego de Pentecostés journal, in which reports of chilean pentecostal missionaries in Bolivia are published, is used as an information source. The results of the research are the mission as a civilizing ideology, the inclusion of indigenous language, disease, health, dreams, visions, the construction of mission networks, rites and ceremonies.

Keywords : pentecostalism; Bolivia; Aymara; Chile.