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ILLICACHI GUZNAY, Juan. Encounters and missed encounters of indigenous women with Catholic and Protestant Churches. Rev. interdiscip. estud. género Col. Méx. [online]. 2017, vol.3, n.5, pp.164-186. ISSN 2395-9185.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eg.v3i5.121.

This paper analyzes the way in which Protestant and Catholic churches, in their ritual spaces, have been building contradictory and ambivalent subjectivities and identities among indigenous women through their micro organizations. On the one hand, the text examines indigenous women who are aware of emancipation, their resistance to forms of domination and whether their responses promote social change or adapt to the socially accepted parameters and therefore a contribute to recreate hierarchy, machismo and violence. On the other hand, the text explores the manner in which indigenized Chimborazo Catholic and Protestant hierarchies produce women who are “obedient” and “submissive” to God and their spouses.

Palavras-chave : power; strength; subjectivities; ambiguities; churches.