El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII
The Church constantly put to doubt the validity of its evangelisation of Peru, accusing the Indians of being just as idolatrous as they had been in the past and of practicing a hypocritical superficial form of Catholicism. Historians have accepted this justification of colonial power (which permitte...
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| description | The Church constantly put to doubt the validity of its evangelisation of Peru, accusing the Indians of being just as idolatrous as they had been in the past and of practicing a hypocritical superficial form of Catholicism. Historians have accepted this justification of colonial power (which permitted it to impose its symbolic monopoly) to be an absolute truth and consider that the attitude of the indigenous population towards European presence was one of permanent religious resistance. However, if we take a closer look at the religious phenomena which the Church branded as manifestations of idolatry, we discover that many of them not only are strongly inspired by Catholic ritual but that they are the expression of a conscious desire to reenact this ritual. In the impossibility of accepting an indigenous Catholic religious autonomy, the Church was obliged to consider these phenomena to be parodies inspired by the demon and thus reinvent the indigenous past. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d21b676594c94af2a8c778f353bbfbf52024-02-14T16:33:22ZspaInstitut Français d'Études AndinesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines0303-74952076-58272001-11-013045547410.4000/bifea.6956El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVIIJuan Carlos EstenssoroThe Church constantly put to doubt the validity of its evangelisation of Peru, accusing the Indians of being just as idolatrous as they had been in the past and of practicing a hypocritical superficial form of Catholicism. Historians have accepted this justification of colonial power (which permitted it to impose its symbolic monopoly) to be an absolute truth and consider that the attitude of the indigenous population towards European presence was one of permanent religious resistance. However, if we take a closer look at the religious phenomena which the Church branded as manifestations of idolatry, we discover that many of them not only are strongly inspired by Catholic ritual but that they are the expression of a conscious desire to reenact this ritual. In the impossibility of accepting an indigenous Catholic religious autonomy, the Church was obliged to consider these phenomena to be parodies inspired by the demon and thus reinvent the indigenous past.https://journals.openedition.org/bifea/6956evangelisationThe devilcolonial artidolatry |
| spellingShingle | Juan Carlos Estenssoro El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines evangelisation The devil colonial art idolatry |
| title | El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII |
| title_full | El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII |
| title_fullStr | El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII |
| title_full_unstemmed | El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII |
| title_short | El simio de diosLos Indígenas y la Iglesia frente a la evangelización del Perú, siglos XVI-XVII |
| title_sort | el simio de dioslos indigenas y la iglesia frente a la evangelizacion del peru siglos xvi xvii |
| topic | evangelisation The devil colonial art idolatry |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/bifea/6956 |
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