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Zusatztext "The volume is clearly an important contribution to scholarship in religious studies, the anthropology of religion and area studies in Central/Mesoamerica and South America. Although academically sophisticated, it would be an appropriate text for graduate or advanced undergraduate students." -Studies in Religion, 2004 Informationen zum Autor Lawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Klappentext An illustration of the range of religious beliefs and practices of the Aztec! Maya! and Inca! along with contemporary cases from all the major cultural-geographic areas of Latin America. Zusammenfassung Providing descriptions and interpretations of religious ideas, this text illustrates a range of religious beliefs and practices. It describes the religious views of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas, and treats contemporary cases from the major cultural-geographic areas of Latin America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Lawrence E. SullivanPart One: Central America1. Aztec Religion: Sacred Cities, Sacred Actions -David Carrasco2. Indigenous Mythology from Present-day Mexico -Alfredo López Austin3. Ritual and Myth in Tlapanec Life -Peter L. van der Loo4. Sacred Forces of the Mayan Universe -Mercedes de la GarzaPart Two: South America5. The World and Its End: Cosmologies and Eschatologies of South American Indians -Lawrence E. Sullivan6. Contemporary Indigenous Religious Life in Peru -Juan M. Ossio Acuña7. The Baniwa -Robin M. Wright8. Inca Religion: Its Foundations in the Central Andean Context -R. Tom Zuidema9. The Religion of the Chamacoco (Ishir) Indians -Edgardo Jorge Cordeu10. The Sacred as Alienated Social Consciousness: Ritual and Cosmology among the Kayapo - Terence Turner11. Fragments of Southern Tehuilche Religiosity and Myths -Alejandra SiffrediContributorsIndex
