ABSTRACT
The conclusions review the main argument of the book in terms of how indigeneity was remade through its relationships with Christianity and state-led colonization in the Colombian Amazon. This study traces how evangelical missionaries in the region crafted new forms of community and indigeneity and addresses how some of these forms clashed with state-led projects of colonization. It illustrates how not all projects of civilization were the same in Amazonia, nor was evangelization always subordinate to the state or resource extraction. This book thus traces how different projects of civilization and modernity produced different ideas about native Amazonians and how they should be governed or morally led. At the same time, Indigenous societies appropriated evangelical Christianity in order to navigate the changes brought on by colonization, state-formation and modernity. This study describes how Indigenous evangelicals developed complex and ambivalent relationships with the state, while Christian indigeneity challenges hegemonic understandings of native Amazonians. Christian-informed notions and practices of indigeneity invite us to recognize other forms of historical Indigenous agency that are not based on explicit resistance to every form of missionization or colonization.
