Religious Regimes in Peru: Religion and State Development in a Long-Term Perspective and the Effects in the Andean Village of Zurite

by Fred Spier

This study deals with religion and politics from the first introduction of agriculture, ca 8000 B.C.E., providing a wealth of new sociological insights as well as many novel historical facts. This long-term investigation is among the first of its kind, if not the first, that has been produced for any world region.

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1994