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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

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1264682007

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

North American Religions

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

This book offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops

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