In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were
speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian
Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women-the widow of one of
the slain men and the sister of another-with the help of a Wao
woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same
people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized
deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize
the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for
American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth
century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story
and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to
be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most
severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused
missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long
offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the
ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries,
anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the
first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas
to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the
cross-hairs of globalization.
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