Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650.(Book review)

Church History | June 1, 2009| | Copyright

doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000663 Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650. By Alan Durston. History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. ix + 395 pp. $42.00 paper.

As the initial sentence of Durston's book points out, the appropriation and use of indigenous languages for religious purposes was "one of the most telling features of Spanish colonialism" (1). It is appropriate and interesting that Durston approaches this problem from the complex ...

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