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Plagues, Priests, and Demons

Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New

Plagues, Priests, and Demons
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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.
Cambridge University Press; December 2004
304 pages; ISBN 9780511079481
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