La doble marginalidad de José de Acosta: religión y soberanía en el virreinato del Perú (siglo XVI)

Abstract

The double marginalization of José de Acosta: religion and sovereignty in the Viceroyaltyof Peru (16th century)With this article we seek to reflect on the status conferred on the European extra alterityin the work of the Jesuit José de Acosta. On the one hand, such an analysis can highlight some uses of religion as a tool for understanding the barbarian populations; onthe other hand, it is about showing the nexus between the evangelizing project and theinstitution of a form of Spanish sovereignty over the viceroyalty of Peru, in the secondhalf of the sixteenth century