Verfasst von:	Hughes, Jennifer Scheper [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The church of the dead
Titelzusatz:	the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas
Verf.angabe:	Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Verlagsort:	New York
Verlag:	New York University Press
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
Umfang:	xviii, 245 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	North American religions
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-4798-0255-5
Abstract:	"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"--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781479802555.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)Nordamerika    / (s)Epidemie    / (s)Christentum    / (s)Indianer    / (s)Mission    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
K10plus-PPN:	1754892108