Religion in the Andes : : Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru / / Sabine MacCormack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: MacCormack, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 p.) :; 56 illustrations, 2 maps
• 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
• 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.

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.