Native American Religions of Central and South America

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

• Introduction - Lawrence E. SullivanPart One: Central America1. Aztec Religion: Sacred Cities, Sacred Actions -David Carrasco2. Indigenous Mythology from Present-day Mexico -Alfredo López Austin3. Ritual and Myth in Tlapanec Life -Peter L. van der Loo4. Sacred Forces of the Mayan Universe -Mercedes de la GarzaPart Two: South America5. The World and Its End: Cosmologies and Eschatologies of South American Indians -Lawrence E. Sullivan6. Contemporary Indigenous Religious Life in Peru -Juan M. Ossio Acuña7. The Baniwa -Robin M. Wright8. Inca Religion: Its Foundations in the Central Andean Context -R. Tom Zuidema9. The Religion of the Chamacoco (Ishir) Indians -Edgardo Jorge Cordeu10. The Sacred as Alienated Social Consciousness: Ritual and Cosmology among the Kayapo - Terence Turner11. Fragments of Southern Tehuilche Religiosity and Myths -Alejandra SiffrediContributorsIndex

"The volume is clearly an important contribution to scholarship in religious studies, the anthropology of religion and area studies in Central/Mesoamerica and South America. Although academically sophisticated, it would be an appropriate text for graduate or advanced undergraduate students." -Studies in Religion, 2004