Mito, conversiones y poder como carisma cristiano entre los wichí

Abstract

Wichí worldview is strongly held-up to these days, when wide and diversified cultural change occurred within these Chacoan communities. Concerning this topic widely extended through the ethnic group, it could be assumed that the reason is that mythical statements could be redefined giving place to new religious phenomena. The present paper aims to describe how nowadays within a single local Christian church there are quite the same past developments concerning certain central notions on the way to access to healing power. These notions reshape present day processes according to the same pattern that has been carried out from decades among other Wichí communities.