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Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories - Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador (Hardcover)
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Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories - Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador (Hardcover)
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Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which
religion and community development are closely intertwined in a
rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical,
documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a
decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador,
Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this
entanglement of religion and development and the ways in which
rural Ecuadorians, as well as development and religious personnel,
negotiate these complicated relationships. Technical innovations
have been connected to religious change since the time of the Inca
conquest, and Ecuadorians have created defensive strategies for
managing such connections. Although most analyses of development
either tend to ignore the genuinely religious roots of development
or conflate development with religion itself, these strategies are
part of a larger negotiation of progress and its meaning in
twenty-first-century Ecuador. DeTemple focuses on three development
agencies-a liberationist Catholic women's group, a municipal unit
dedicated to agriculture, and evangelical Protestant missionaries
engaged in education and medical work-to demonstrate that in some
instances Ecuadorians encourage a hybridity of religion and
development, while in other cases they break up such hybridities
into their component parts, often to the consternation of those
with whom religious and development discourse originate. This
management of hybrids reveals Ecuadorians as agents who produce and
reform modernities in ways often unrecognized by development
scholars, aid workers, or missionaries, and also reveals that an
appreciation of religious belief is essential to a full
understanding of diverse aspects of daily life.
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