The Catholic Church in the highlands: Five decades of pastoral work in the Ayaviri prelature (1959-2005)

• Autores: Estenós Loayza, Alejandro, Ugarte Cornejo, Manuel
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/407
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/407
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: pastoral católica; indigenismo; culturalismo; Teología de la Liberación; democracia en la Iglesia; religión andina

Based on ecclesiastical primary sources, this paper proposes a sequence of four historical stages of pastoral practice in the Prelature of Ayaviri, an important diocese in the southern Andes of Peru. The determinate phases in a period of almost fifty years are: 1) traditional-conservative (1959-1969); 2) indigenous-cultural (1970-1974); 3) politicalliberationist (1975-1992); and 4) political-democratizing (1993-2005). This analysis points out important changes in pastoral efforts and their implications for the Church’s work in religious (sacramental, liturgical, catechismal or popular religious practices) and social-political terms.