Jose de Acosta’s «De procuranda Indorum salute» : A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru Hardback

by Gregory J. Shepherd

Part of the Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures series

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JosÃ© de Acostaâ€™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.

As this book analyzes JosÃ© de Acostaâ€™s De procuranda Indorum salute, one of the most important treatises of the colonial period, it explores influences and intentions and reveals context and subtext.

Comprehensive in its appraisal of Acostaâ€™s intellectual achievement, this book is essential for scholars and students of this early period of Christian and European expansion in the Americas.

Not only does Gregory J. Shepherd examine Acostaâ€™s missionary manual against the controversial backdrop of Las Casas and SepÃºlveda, but he also reconstructs the political atmosphere surrounding Toledoâ€™s massive and intrusive transformation of Andean life.

Most importantly, this text carries out a thorough study of the ideologies â€“ Christian, Jesuit, and European â€“ underlying Acostaâ€™s appeal for political, social, and ecclesiastic reform.