The Jesuit utopia in the missions of the Chiquitania

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Published: Sep 20, 2010
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Jesuit´s missions, Reductions, Chiquitanía, Baroque music

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Carlos Vara Thorbeck
Universidad de Málaga

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The Jesuit’s evangelization of Paraguay by means of the Indian Reductions is very well known, not of the Bolivian Beni. Paraguayan reductions fell down after Jesuit’s expulsion, on the contrary the reductions of “Chiquitos” and “Moxos” Indians are still working. The sixty six m eters long Churches, constructed on “cuchi” wood have been proclaimed Humankind Heritage after the reconstruction carried out by the Swiss Jesuit Brother and architect Hans Roth. The missionaries were sensitive to the native fondness and special capacity of the Indians for music; they founded chorus and orchestras, making different instruments. Very recently a baroque musical archive of more than 5.000 pages was found and every year its music is performed in the “Festivales Internacionales de Música Barroca y Renacentista” in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia).

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Vara Thorbeck, C. (2010). The Jesuit utopia in the missions of the Chiquitania. Proyección. Teología Y Mundo Actual, (238), 289–300. Retrieved from https://revistas.uloyola.es/ptma/article/view/5600
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No. 238 (2010)
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