Idolatry and Its Enemies
by University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton (9780691029795)

Idolatry and Its Enemies (Book)

University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Release Date: 3 Feb 1997
Format: hardback
Pages: 346
ISBN: 9780691029795
ISBN-10: 0691029792

The ecclesiastical investigations into Indian religious error - the Extirpation of idolatry - that occurred in the 17th- and 18th-century Archdiocese of Lima are shown in this book as the most revealing sources on colonial Andean religion and culture. Focusing on the period 1640-1750, and moving beyond portrayals that often view the relationships between indigenous peoples and Europeans solely in terms of repression, opposition or accommodation, this text provides interpretation for understanding Andeans and Spanish Christians as participants in a common, if not harmonious, history. By examining colonial interaction and "religion as lived", the book introduces memorable native Andean and Spanish actors and finds vivid points of entry into the complex realities of parish life in the mid-colonial Andes.;The book describes fitful, sometimes unintentional and often ambiguous kinds of religious change amongst Andeans. It shows that many of the Quechua speakers whose testimonies form the bulk of the archival evidence were simultaneously active Catholic parishioners and adherents to a complex of transforming Andean religious structures. The book also explores the notions of reformation an

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