Article
Spanish
ID: <
10.4000/bifea.1580>
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DOI: <
10.4000/bifea.1580>
Abstract
Since its establishment in the central jungle of Peru, to the 1920’s, Adventist missionaries have constantly reported the permanency of a series of traditional rituals among the converted Asháninkas, which despite hard and constant criticism and missionary preaching, retain great vitality to the present day. Among these, the one that has been mainly reported —and then confronted by evangelization and pastoral action— has been the practice of “shamanism” and accusations of witchcraft accusat. Understanding that this issue tin the recent years has provoked interest within the Amazonian anthropology, we propose a reflection about the trials generated from the missionary perspective about this phenomena, noting how the worldview of indigenous converts to Adventism, beyond generating a break with their traditional religion and the acceptance of a Christian doctrinal explanation about the origins of the evil and disease, it has generated a complex interpretation of modern and traditional concepts to understand the principle and the presence of evil and the devil in the world.