Born in 1931 in Olivenza, in Extremadura, on the border between Spain and Portugal, with twenty years went to Peru, where he lived most of his life and developed his academic career, and m being Peruvian citizen since 1960. In its formative stage and researcher also resided in other countries in Latin America, mainly Ecuador, where he studied philosophy between 1954 and 1957 culminating in 1964 with a doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and Mexico where he studied theology at the Theological Institute of the Society of Jesus and Social Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico where he earned a master's degree in 1968. It is precisely in the field of anthropology, particularly in the anthropology of religion where he developed his teaching and research, from 1968 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and in the last five years his life bringing to fruition the creation of Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University in Lima, which was its first president. It was also highlighted its work in international associations dedicated to the study of religion. Within the IAHR (International Association for the History of Religions), was an honorary life member. His work was also very active in the American regional association, LARE (American Association for the Study of Religion) and scientific meetings that have been developed under its auspices. Among his work are The possible utopia: Indians and Jesuits in colonial America (Lima, PUCP, 2 vols, 1992-1994.) And History of indigenous anthropology: Mexico and Peru (Barcelona, Anthropos ed., 1993). The reflections on what it meant by Latin American religious landscape systematized, from the overall perspective of an academic career in his high point in the second part of his awesome book (over 600 pages) Haunted Earth. Treaty of religious anthropology of Latin America (Lima-Madrid, Trotta, 2002). His last work was Andean Religions (Madrid, Trotta, 2005), who came to see published just two months before his death.