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How is the one gospel related to the many cultures of the world? This question, debated within the ecumenical movement from the outset, has been given new focus through the World Council of Churches' 1996 world conference on mission and evangelism and the global study process leading up to it. In these short pamphlets, edited by Christopher Duraisingh, Christians from a diversity of cultural contexts describe and reflect on what it has meant for the gospel to be proclaimed and lived out within the setting of their own culture, thus pointing to both the richness and challenges of this encounter. The traditional religion of the Aymara people in the Andean highlands of northern Chile was modified when they were absorbed into the Inca empire in the15th century. Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Incas a century later ushered in a new religious encounter for these people - with Roman Catholicism. Now, since the mid-20th century, indigenous Pentecostal churches have been recording astonishing growth among the Aymaras. The Catholic missions - some rooted in a search for points of contact between Christianity and Inca religion, some determined to "extirpate idolatry" - and the later Pentecostal mission have both raised profound issues about relating the gospel to the contexts in whichit is proclaimed.

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