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This text provides descriptions and interpretations of religious ideas, its aim is to illustrate something of the range of religious beliefs and practices through cases that are exemplary. The first part describes the religious views of the Aztec, Maya and Inca, dating to the time before contact with Europeans. The rest of the text treats contemporary cases from the major cultural-geographic areas of Latin America. Whether the focus is on myth, architecture, ritual celebrations or shamanic practice, each essay provides a religious profile of the culture in question.
Contents
Introduction - Lawrence E. Sullivan
Part One: Central America
1. Aztec Religion: Sacred Cities, Sacred Actions -David Carrasco
2. Indigenous Mythology from Present-day Mexico -Alfredo López Austin
3. Ritual and Myth in Tlapanec Life -Peter L. van der Loo
4. Sacred Forces of the Mayan Universe -Mercedes de la Garza
Part Two: South America
5. The World and Its End: Cosmologies and Eschatologies of South American Indians -Lawrence E. Sullivan
6. Contemporary Indigenous Religious Life in Peru -Juan M. Ossio Acuña
7. The Baniwa -Robin M. Wright
8. Inca Religion: Its Foundations in the Central Andean Context -R. Tom Zuidema
9. The Religion of the Chamacoco (Ishir) Indians -Edgardo Jorge Cordeu
10. The Sacred as Alienated Social Consciousness: Ritual and Cosmology among the Kayapo - Terence Turner
11. Fragments of Southern Tehuilche Religiosity and Myths -Alejandra Siffredi
Contributors
Index