Religion in the Andes : vision and imagination in early colonial Peru / Sabine MacCormack.

Author
MacCormack, Sabine [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1991.
Description
xv, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "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. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Prologue: Themes and Arguments
    • Reality Represented in the Imagination
    • Philosophy and Theology
    • Religion and Politics
    • Invasion of Peru and First Contacts, 1532-1535
    • The Devil and Divination
    • The Last Inti Raimi and the End of Imperial Religion
    • The Incas and Their Spanish Historians, 1535-1552
    • Divination and the Dead
    • Cuzco, the Ruling City
    • Incas, Mummies, and the Order of Time
    • Andean Sacred Space and Time, 1552-1583
    • Regional Cults and the Incas
    • Memories of Inti Raimi
    • Taqui Onqoy and Inca Antiquities
    • The Impact of Theory: Bartolome de Las Casas on Culture, Imagination, and Idolatry, circa 1560
    • The Worship of One God
    • Demons and the Imagination
    • Gains and Losses
    • The Mind of the Missionary: Jose de Acosta on Accommodation and Extirpation, circa 1590
    • The Inca and His Gods: The Turn of the Century in the Andes
    • The Vision of Inca Pachacuti
    • Prophecy and the End of Tahuantinsuyo
    • The True Religion in Ancient Peru
    • Religion and Philosophy: Garcilaso de la Vega and Some Peruvian Readers, 1609-1639
    • Ideas of the Holy
    • The Phantasm Viracocha
    • Conversion and Desengano
    • The Great Divide: Andean Religion in Theory and Practice, 1621-1653
    • The View from Lima
    • Andeans in Their Land
    • Epilogue: Vision, Imagination, and Society.
    ISBN
    • 0691094683 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780691094687 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780691021065
    • 0691021066
    LCCN
    91015441
    OCLC
    23655254
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