Geographies of faith in the symbolic dimensión of cross-border evangelical mobility between Bolivia, Chile and Peru

Abstract

The objective of this article is to make a historical itinerary on the cross-border religious practices of different evangelical religious groups (Protestant and Pentecostal), considering that, on the one hand, they were missionary practices related to local indigenous groups offering schooling spaces, then due to the conversion of Aymara leaders, rituals, beliefs and Aymara cultural practices were intertwined with the Pentecostal discourse and finally became circuits of cross-border mobility and migration accentuated in recent decades. For this, we approached 3 stages that are not successive, but overlapping: missionary Protestantism; indigenous and evangelical Pentecostalism and cross-border links, theoretically we will approach it from the perspective of the cross-borderers and methodologically from a qualitative perspective that consists of a review of archives of institutional journals; in-depth interview and participant observation in cultic activities in the different tri-border spaces.