José Zanardini, the priest who tried to reconcile faith and Indigenous autonomy
via news.mongabay.com
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For much of South America’s history, the arrival of a missionary has carried two reputations at once. One is charitable: a figure with medicine, schooling, and a language of human dignity that can be useful in a state that is often absent. The other is coercive: an agent of conversion and acculturation, sometimes entangled with […]