The university’s research group on Indigenous communities and the Abya Yala Publishing House invites people from indigenous communities, researchers, professors, sociologists, theologists and historians to present their papers based on the topic of: Missions, the state and indigenous communities. Crucial transformations of a historical relationship. 

 

The papers must openly analyze the actions of missions, the church and the state in indigenous territories in a context of economic expansion, the exploitation of natural resources, migration to cities and the impact of Covid 19. 

 

 

• Territories

 

• Good living and development

 

• Interculturality and education

 

• Plurinational state and indigenous autonomies

 

• Political and sociocultural transformations

 

• Ecclesial and state transformations

 

Papers must be sent to Milagros Aguirre, general editor of Abya Yala: editorial@abyayala.org.ec 

 

 

- Papers must be send by April 10th 

 

- Approval, revision and publication: From April to September, 2021