RT Book
T1 Icanchu's drum: an orientation to meaning in South American religions
A1 Sullivan, Lawrence Eugene 1949-
LA English
PP New York, N.Y. u.a.
PB Macmillan
YR 1988
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/164767736X
AB This is an introduction to the religions of South America, taking in the full gamut of religious beliefs, from the Aymara and Quechua of the Andes to the Carib and Tupi of the Amazon Basin. Lawrence Sullivan ranges through the different traditions to examine the practices, myths, symbols, rituals, deities and institutions of the various religions - presenting them from four aspects: "Beginnings", cosmology, anthropology and the "Meaning of the end". The book travels from primal religious experience with nature to the creation of gods and goddesses: from the cycles of life to native images of what it means to be human, to work, create and die.
NO Bibliography: p. 887-929
CN F2230.1.R3
SN 0029321603
K1 South American Indian religions
K1 Indians of South America : Religion