Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650

by Regina Harrison

A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices-especially the practice of confession-to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, expansive bodies of Spanish ecclesiastic literature were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477307583
• ISBN13: 9781477307588
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"