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Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New Book

Plagues, Priests, and Demons is a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and colonial Mexico. Analysis of early Christian literature and Spanish missionary texts reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, contributing respectively to pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe, and later Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, introduced new beliefs and practices as well as accommodated indigenous religions.Read More

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    This comparative interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and in colonial Mexico reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, contributing respectively to pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe and, later, Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, reacted by introducing new beliefs and practices and accommodating indigenous religions as well.

  • 0521600502
  • 9780521600507
  • Daniel T. Reff
  • 6 December 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 302
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