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Lux et Tenebris? Coloniality and Anglican Missions in Argentine Patagonia in the Nineteenth Century

2021; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/h10010036

2076-0787

Hugo Córdova Quero,

Religion and Society Interactions

Within the modern capitalist World-System, Missionary work was mostly developed through the connubiality with colonial powers. The missionary work of the Anglican Church is no exception. This article centers on the missionary enterprise carried out in Argentine Patagonia in the nineteenth century. Missionaries’ reports carefully narrated that venture. However, the language and the notions underlying the missionary work’s narration reveal the dominion of colonial ideologies that imbued how religious agents constructed alterity. Connecting the missionaries’ worldview with the political context and expansion of the British Empire allows us to unfold the complex intersections of religious, ethnic, racial, and geopolitical discourses that traverse the lives of indigenous peoples in South America.