Abstract
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.
Highlights
Within the modern capitalist World-System, Missionary work was mostly developed through the connubiality with colonial powers
This article explores the history of the Anglican missions in Argentine Patagonia in the nineteenth century and their connection with the British colonial enterprise in the region
On the other hand, knowing the Church of England’s situation, we can deduce that the missionaries in Argentine Patagonia and the immigrant in the River Plate belonged to two different ecclesiastical sectors
Summary
“we lived from week to week, seeking according to the grace given to us to be useful in opening the eyes of these poor people to see and follow the light of God’s truth, and to love and serve their God and Saviour”. Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. With those words, the Anglican missionary Rev. Thomas Bridges concluded his report to the South American Missionary Society (SAMS) for 1871 The origin of the missionary expeditions coincided precisely with when the Falkland Islands were annexed to the British Empire. The British government has long claimed sovereignty of the Falkland Islands over the Spanish Empire’s rights. This article explores the history of the Anglican missions in Argentine Patagonia in the nineteenth century and their connection with the British colonial enterprise in the region. It addresses the biblical-theological reinterpretations that sustained the notions of “evangelization” and “civilization” that legitimated the dominion of the original peoples of the region as directly connected to the European self-understanding of superiority
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