ANDEAN COSMOLOGY AND RELIGION: A HISTORICAL DYNAMICS OF ENCOUNTERS, MISSED CONNECTIONS AND REUNIONS

• Main Author: Avelar Araujo Santos Junior
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2009-06-01
• Series: Espaço Ameríndio
• Subjects: Religiosidad; sincretismo; simbolismo; reinterpretación.
• Online Access: http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/8431

Religiosity of contemporary Andean indigenous peoples is constituted by a complex interaction between theology and the original items from the Christianized and ideologies historically produced phenomena such as taxation, interpenetration, removal, syncretism, resistance and reinvention. Embedded in this context was developed as a way of enhancing identity particular worldview is quite representative of their feelings and attitudes about the world, mainly in what it says respect to their territory and their community experiences and patterns of reciprocity in the socialization of traditions. Thus, our proposal in this article is to analyze some of the different elements of the symbolic representation, mythological and ritualistic of these communities, characterized by persistent conflict between a hegemonic dominance of the creative and creative autonomy.