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Informationen zum Autor Claudia Brosseder is a Privatdozentin at Munich University and holds a research position in the Excellence Center for Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University. She is the author of Im Bann der Sterne. Caspar Peucer, Philipp Melanchthon und andere Wittenberger Astrologen. Klappentext Based on extensive archival research, The Power of Huacas is the first book to take account of the reciprocal effects of religious colonization as they impacted Andean populations and, simultaneously, dramatically changed the culture and beliefs of Spanis Zusammenfassung Based on extensive archival research, The Power of Huacas is the first book to take account of the reciprocal effects of religious colonization as they impacted Andean populations and, simultaneously, dramatically changed the culture and beliefs of Spanis Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Land Obsessed with Confessions; or, The Historians’ Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists2. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities3. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists4. Talking to Demons: The Intensified Persecution of Andean Religious Specialists (ca. 1609–1700)5. From Outspoken Criticism to Clandestine Resistance6. Glimpses of the Protective Powers of Andean Rituals in the Highlands7. Andean Notions of Nature and Harm, and the Disempowerment of Andean Healers8. Weeping Statues: The End of Jesuit Demonology and the Survival of an Andean Culture9. EpilogueNotesGlossaryConsulted ArchivesBibliographyDownload an extended bibliography.Index
