The church of the dead : the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas / Jennifer Scheper Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Jennifer Scheper, author.

Series:

North American religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Epidemics--Mexico--History--16th century.

Epidemics.

Catholic Church--Mexico--History--16th century.

History.

Mexico--Church history--16th century.

Mexico.

Church history.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I AVE VERUM CORPUS: ABJECT MATTER AND HOLY FLESH

1. Theologia Medicinalis: Medicine As Sacrament Of The Mortandad

2. Corpus Coloniae Mysticum: Indigenous Bodies And The Body Of Christ

pt. II ROADS TO REDEMPTION AND RECOVERY: CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINARY

3. Walking Landscapes Of Loss After The Mortandad: Spectral Geographies In A Ruined World

4. Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum/This Is My Body: Cartographies Of An Indigenous Catholic Imaginary After The Mortandad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479802555

1479802557

OCLC:

1201178698

Publisher Number:

99988322325