THE ANDEAN DEVIL: THE SOCIETY OF JESUS AND DEMONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE VICEROYALTY OF PERU (1568 - 1640).
Demonology; Viceroyalty of Peru; Jesuits; III Council of Lima; Amerindians.
Our present research aims to investigate the relationships generated from the contact between Jesuit evangelizers priests and Amerindian Indians in the Viceroyalty of Peru, understanding the Christian demonological discourse as a fundamental element to fully understand them. In this way, We focus on the prism of Cultural History to understand demonology as a heterology and thus investigate which elements of Amerindian culture were placed under the demonic aegis as they appear in the production of Jesuit literature by authors such as José de Acosta and José de Arriaga. Furthermore, we will try to understand how the need for the extirpation of native idolatries was justified through the need to destroy this same demonic agency over the Amerindian people, fostering the institution of a strong apparatus of evangelization that culminated in the resolutions of the III Council of Lima. (1582-1583) and a consequent change in the education provided by the Jesuits to the indigenous people.