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Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru

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  • Elizabeth Olson

    (Department of Geography, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, England)

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I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evangelical and other non-Catholic faiths now well established in the rural highlands. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the Provincias Altas of Cusco, Peru, I examine the histories and organizational expressions of development truths promoted by the Iglesia Surandina (the Catholic Church of the Southern Andes), and the Iglesia Evangélica Peruana (the Peruvian Evangelical Church). The ways that these epistemologies become negotiated and translated in two rural districts reinforces the importance of historical context in the formation of development epistemologies, but it also suggests that organizational structures and differences in transnational processes contribute to the acceptance of or challenge to different sets of knowledge regarding development.

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  • Elizabeth Olson, 2006. "Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 38(5), pages 885-902, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:38:y:2006:i:5:p:885-902
    DOI: 10.1068/a37217
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    1. Lily Kong, 2006. "Religion and Spaces of Technology: Constructing and Contesting Nation, Transnation, and Place," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 38(5), pages 903-918, May.
    2. Elizabeth Olson & Rachel Silvey, 2006. "Transnational Geographies: Rescaling Development, Migration, and Religion," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 38(5), pages 805-808, May.
    3. Katherine Marshall & Lucy Keough, 2004. "Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 14927.
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    2. Elizabeth Olson, 2008. "Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development And Faith‐Based Organisational Culture," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 99(4), pages 393-405, September.
    3. Scoville-Simonds, Morgan, 2018. "Climate, the Earth, and God – Entangled narratives of cultural and climatic change in the Peruvian Andes," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 345-359.

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