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Also, the literacy efforts of most SIL missionaries are directed toward the reading and translation of the Bible, and it is doubtful whether literacy materials based on culturally unfamiliar Biblical texts are as effective as those grounded in culturally familiar narratives and the immediate needs of the people. Moreover, language preservation is only an incidental goal – at most – of the missionary endeavor; even the World Council of Churches, at their 1971 meeting in Barbados, agreed that the translation and study of indigenous languages carried out by SIL was not being done to give the Indians a tool to communicate to protect their way of life, but rather "to destroy the culture's core belief system…and replace it with an American version of Fundamentalist Protestantism" (cf. HEMMING 2003: 267).
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