ABSTRACT
This chapter looks the imprints and the dynamic presence of the divine in multiform ways, and both anthropology and theology help us to do so. It provides a description of the religious manifestations and the presence of the divine among the Quechua people of southern Peru, drawing from ethno-historical and contemporary anthropological studies. The chapter offers some reflections on the importance of encouraging dialogue between anthropology and theology. It suggests that anthropology should be open to learning from religious wisdom in ways that may require an adjustment to its methodological approach, but may also better account for a reality that is evident in the behaviors and beliefs of the peoples and cultures studied. Anthropologists of religion generally distinguish between the sacred and the profane. However, we must say that the division between the sacred and the profane is more typical of Western societies than of others.
