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Author Reff, Daniel T., 1949-

Title Plagues, priests, and demons : sacred narratives and the rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New / Daniel T. Reff
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- Epidemic disease and the rise of Christianity in Europe, 150-800 CE -- The rise of Christianity in the New World: the Jesuit missions of Colonial Mexico, 1591-1660 -- The relevance of Early Christian literature to missionaries in Colonial Latin America -- Conclusion
Summary Plagues, Priests, and Demons is a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and colonial Mexico. Analysis of early Christian and Spanish missionary texts reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, encouraging pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-279) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 880-01 Jesuits -- Missions -- Mexico -- History
SUBJECT 880-01/(S Jγ̐ưesuites -- Missions -- Mexique -- Histoire
Jesuits fast
Jesuiten gnd
Subject Missions -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Communicable diseases -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Medicine, Medieval.
Communicable Diseases -- history
Christianity -- history
Disease Outbreaks -- history
History, Ancient
History, Medieval
History, Modern 1601-
Missions and Missionaries -- history
11.50 church history and history of doctrine: general.
15.52 Roman Empire.
15.85 history of America.
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Medicine, Medieval
Communicable diseases -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
880-02 Church history -- Primitive and early church
880-02/(S γ̐ưEglise -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (γ̐ưEglise primitive)
Missions
Missions -- Early church
Mission
Christianisierung
Christentum
Zending.
Rampen.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084542
Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Europe
Mexico
Subject Europe
Mexico
Mexiko
Europa
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 22008272
ISBN 0511081006
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9781280163210
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