Chapter Three. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. A Land Obsessed with Confessions; or, The Historians’ Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists 26
6. Chapter Two. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities 47
7. Chapter Three. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists 68
8. Chapter Four. Talking to Demons: The Intensified Persecut ion of Andean Religious Specialists (ca. 1609–1700) 104
9. Chapter Five. From Out spoken Criticism to Clandestine Resistance 136
10. Chapter Six. Glimpses of the Protective Powers of Andean Rituals in the Highlands 175
11. Chapter Seven. Andean Notions of Nature and Harm, and the Disempowerment of Andean Healers 192
12. Chapter Eight. Weeping Statues: The End of Jesuit Demonology and the Survival of an Andean Culture 229
13. Chapter Nine. Epilogue 254
14. Notes 273
15. Glossary 369
16. Consulted Archives 373
17. Bibliography 375
18. Index 443