Bibliograph

The church of the dead, the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas, Jennifer Scheper Hughes

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The church of the dead, the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas, Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-233) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The church of the dead

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1201178698

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Series statement

North American religions

Sub title

the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas

Summary

"In 1576 a catastrophic epidemic devastated Indigenous Mexican communities and left the colonial church in ruins. With its horrific final symptom of hemorrhage from the nose, the unfamiliar disease, which the Nahua named cocoliztli, took almost two million lives. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of church in the Americas"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preface. Mortandad : requiem -- Introduction. Ecclesia ex mortuis : Mexican elegy and the church of the dead -- Theologia medicinalis : medicine as sacrament of the mortandad -- Corpus coloniae mysticum : indigenous bodies and the body of Christ -- Walking landscapes of loss after the mortandad : spectral geographies in a ruined world -- Hoc est enim corpus meum/This is my body : cartographies of an Indigenous Catholic imaginary after the mortandad -- Conclusion. The church of the living : toward a counter-history of Christianity in the Americas

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