Religion in the Andes : : Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru / / Sabine MacCormack.
Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (516 p.) :; 56 illustrations, 2 maps |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- GRATIARUM ACTIO -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- PROLOGUE: THEMES AND ARGUMENTS -- I REALITY REPRESENTED IN THE IMAGINATION -- II INVASION OF PERU AND FIRST CONTACTS, 1532-1535 -- III THE INCAS AND THEIR SPANISH HISTORIANS, 1535-1552 -- IV ANDEAN SACRED SPACE AND TIME, 1552-1583 -- V THE IMPACT OF THEORY: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS ON CULTURE, IMAGINATION, AND IDOLATRY, CIRCA 1560 -- VI THE MIND OF THE MISSIONARY: JOSE DE ACOSTA ON ACCOMMODATION AND EXTIRPATION, CIRCA 1590 -- VII THE INCA AND HIS GODS: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN THE ANDES -- VIII RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: GARCILASO DE LA VEGA AND SOME PERUVIAN READERS, 1609-1639 -- IX THE GREAT DIVIDE: ANDEAN RELIGION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, 1621-1653 -- EPILOGUE: VISION, IMAGINATION, AND SOCIETY -- GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781400843695 9783110442496 9783110784237 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781400843695?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sabine MacCormack. |