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050 00 $aF3429.3.R3$bG74 1996
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100 1 $aGriffiths, Nicholas,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95071389
245 14 $aThe cross and the serpent :$breligious repression and resurgence in colonial Peru /$cby Nicholas Griffiths.
260 $aNorman, Okla. :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axii, 355 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-341) and index.
520 $aAstride the ruins of the former Inca Empire, victorious Spaniards in the seventeenth century initiated a relentless and uncompromising assault on the Andean religious world. Native spiritual leaders did not submit without a struggle; they resisted persecution, adapting beliefs and rites to contest the dominance of Christianity in Peru's postconquest world.
520 8 $aIn this book, Nicholas Griffiths examines how Spaniards conceived religious repression and how Andeans responded to it throughout the seventeenth and well into the eighteenth century.
520 8 $aGriffiths explores in detail the conceptual framework and methods used by the Spaniards to interpret native religion. The defenders of traditional Andean religion, its native priests, were identified with a powerful figure in Spanish demonology, the sorcerer, who was understood to be a charlatan and a trickster rather than a fearful ally of Satan. The Spaniards failed to perceive, and hence to challenge, the very real powers that these religious leaders exercised as the shamans for their communities.
520 8 $aNative Andeans resisted persecution through a variety of strategies. Indigenous communities were able to undermine the effectiveness of judicial trials and even exploit them as a means to settle their own internal disputes. Persecution drove native religion underground, but its underlying principles were not destroyed. Instead, the Andean spiritual realm offered a vigorous response to repression and underwent fundamental adaptations and transformations in a dynamic process of self-renewal.
650 0 $aIndians of South America$zPeru (Viceroyalty)$xReligion.
650 0 $aIndians, Treatment of$zPeru (Viceroyalty)$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndians of South America$zPeru (Viceroyalty)$xSocial conditions.
610 20 $aCatholic Church$xMissions$zPeru (Viceroyalty)$xHistory.
650 0 $aPersecution$zPeru (Viceroyalty)$xHistory.
650 0 $aFreedom of religion$zPeru (Viceroyalty)$xHistory.
651 0 $aPeru (Viceroyalty)$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hF3429.3.R3$iG74 1996