2005, ISBN: 9783638337717

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: B-, LMU Munich (Psychology of Excellence), course: Comparative Religions, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: En… Mehr…

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: B-, LMU Munich (Psychology of Excellence), course: Comparative Religions, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Sometimes, religious traditions are till today fascinating stories. When I heard the fairy-tale of 'Manco Cápac and Mama Ocollo' by a temperamental Peruvian woman, I was upset when I heard the lurid ending. The Spanish conquered the Incan empire and her words were: 'Blood! Blood everywhere!'. I was wondering - why do people kill each other because of their religion? This question must exist since human's belief in religions, because history tells and presence shows us similar situations. One religious group wants to devastate the other - a situation we still experience today. Thus, back to the Inca. Why was the destruction of the Inca by the Christian conquerors so strong that almost the whole empire, the traditions and the religion is gone till now? The Christian immigrants must have seen the natives of Peru as foreign creatures they could not understand. Their belief of good and bad, of moral and ethic was too different to understand the Incan culture. For the next pages of this essay, I want to take off my 'Christian classes' (which the Spanish conquerors obviously had) and have a look to the religious culture of the Inca. Who were those Native South American people whose huge empire was based in Peru and covering the entire Andean region? What was their idea of the world and the beyond? I want to give an objective view, but this will hardly be possible of a lost culture. Only archaeology can give us some hints, however, the findings were primarily interpreted by Christians, e.g. Catholic University in Salta (Argentina) unwraps and studies newfound mummies of the Andean culture (Schuster, 1999). As a next step in this essay, I will show some controversies to Christianity. This might help to understand, why the Spanish could not accept the ideology of the Inca and why this culture is still fascination in today's life. What were the barriers between these religions. Thus, I belief there must have been some similarities, because humans need for knowledge of the beyond is unbroken through history, society and nationality. Could parts of the Inca still be alive, only hidden in the new Christian culture? What if the Spanish had not entered the Incan empire - could their religion exist in today's world? I will base this paper on recent literature, personal ideas and the words of a Peruvian lecturer I met during my studies of cross-cultural psychology (main focus: countries of the Andes). eBook Iris Hackermeier PDF, GRIN, 01.01.2005, GRIN, 2005<

2005, ISBN: 3638337715

In englischer Sprache. Verlag: GRIN Verlag, PC-PDF, 14 Seiten, 1., Auflage, [GR: 9729 - Nonbooks, PBS / Soziologie/Sonstiges], [SW: - Soziologie], [Ausgabe: 1][PU:GRIN Verlag], [PU: Grin… Mehr…

In englischer Sprache. Verlag: GRIN Verlag, PC-PDF, 14 Seiten, 1., Auflage, [GR: 9729 - Nonbooks, PBS / Soziologie/Sonstiges], [SW: - Soziologie], [Ausgabe: 1][PU:GRIN Verlag], [PU: Grin-Verlag, München ]<

2005, ISBN: 9783638337717

From the Perspective of Christianity, [ED: 1], Auflage, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: GRIN Publishing]

ISBN: 9783638337717

Religion of the Ancient Inca - From the Perspective of Christianity ab 3.99 EURO Medien > Bücher, [PU: Grin-Verlag, München ]

2005, ISBN: 9783638337717

[ED: 1], 1. Auflage, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: GRIN Verlag]