José de Acosta's «de Procuranda Indorum Salute» A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru |
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| Author:
| Shepherd, Gregory J. |
| Series title: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4541-9503-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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Jos#65533; de Acosta's 'De procuranda Indorum salute': A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain's colonial policies.
Jos#65533; de Acosta's 'De procuranda Indorum salute': A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain's colonial policies.