MISSÃO ADVENTISTA ENTRE OS KARAJÁ DE SANTA IZABEL DO MORRO: 1980 a 2000

Abstract

This study is aimed to understand the role of Adventist missionaries at the Karajá communities located in the region of Santa Izabel, in the city of Lagoa da Confusão (TO). They reported major impacts on the culture Karajá in the environment in which these missionaries were, which nowadays expands to national culture. The Adventist Mission, like other religious missions, had non-conclusive and frustrating receptivities among the people living the banks of the Araguaia River. This is a bibliographic study about Araguaia people and the Adventists missionaries attempts among the Karajá communities between the periods 1980 to 2000. It was researched books, thesis, dissertations, articles and various publications about the historical actions among indigenous peoples and their Karajá cultures from the Araguaia region. The result of study shows that Adventists have faced challenges to the process of evangelization among Karajá. They had to deal with the cosmological views of the community and the intensification of the presence of Catholic and Protestant missionaries, these Pentecostals and Presbyterians, installed in Santa Izabel Hill, making even more complex the missionary attempt of IASD (Seventh Day Adventist Church).