Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

Sabine MacCormack

Princeton University Press, 1991 - Social Science - 488 pages

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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This is a detailed and careful study of Inca and Andean religion from 1532 (the Spanish invasion) to about 1660 (when Inca religion had merged into ancestral Andean religion, but before Andean ...

Contents

• REALITY REPRESENTED IN THE IMAGINATION: 15
• 1 Philosophy and Theology: 18
• 2 Religion and Politics: 35
• INVASION OF PERU AND FIRST CONTACTS 15321535: 50
• 1 The Devil and Divination: 55
• 2 The Last Inti Raimi and the End of Imperial Religion: 63
• THE INCAS AND THEIR SPANISH HISTORIANS 15351552: 80
• 1 Divination and the Dead: 85
• 2 Cuzco the Ruling City: 98
• 3 Incas Mummies and the Order of Time: 118
• ANDEAN SACRED SPACE AND TIME 15521583: 139
• 1 Regional Cults and the Incas: 141
• 2 Memories of Inti Raimi: 159
• 3 Taqui Onqoy and Inca Antiquities: 181
• THE IMPACT OF THEORY BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS ON CULTURE IMAGINATION AND IDOLATRY CIRCA 1560: 205
• 1 The Worship of One God: 212
• 2 Demons and the Imagination: 225
• 3 Gains and Losses: 240
• THE MIND OF THE MISSIONARY JOSÉ DE ACOSTA ON ACCOMMODATION AND EXTIRPATION CIRCA 1590: 249
• THE INCA AND HIS GODS THE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN THE ANDES: 281
• 1 The Vision of Inca Pachacuti: 285
• 2 Prophecy and the End of Tahuantinsuyo: 301
• 3 The True Religion in Ancient Peru: 312
• RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY GARCILASO DE LA VEGA AND SOME PERUVIAN READERS 16091639: 332
• 1 Ideas or the Holy: 333
• 2 The Phantasm Viracocha: 349
• 3 Conversion and Desengaño: 364
• THE GREAT DIVIDE ANDEAN RELIGION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 16211653: 383
• 1 The View from Lima: 386
• 2 Andeans in Their Land: 406
• VISION IMAGINATION AND SOCIETY: 434
• GLOSSARY: 457
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: 461
• INDEX: 481

About the author

Sabine MacCormack is Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History and Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan. She is author of Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (California).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru; ACLS Humanities E-Book
• Author: Sabine MacCormack
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1991
• ISBN: 0691021066, 9780691021065
• Length: 488 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General