Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750 Kenneth Mills

(Princeton University Press) Looking at the Archdiocese of Lima from1640 to 1750, Mills depicts the native Andeans and Spanish Christians not merely in terms of repression, opposition, or accommodation, but also as participants in a common, if not harmonious, history. In describing the fitful and often ambiguous religious changes among Andeans, he also connects this religious history to the experiences in other regions of colonial Spanish America, and to wider relations between Christian and non-Christian peoples. Mills is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University.