An edition of Plagues, Priests, and Demons
(2004)
Plagues, priests, and demons
sacred narratives and the rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
by Daniel T. Reff
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This comparative interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and in colonial Mexico reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, contributing respectively to pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe and, later, Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, reacted by introducing new beliefs and practices and accommodating indigenous religions as well.
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Christianity, Church history, Communicable diseases, History, Jesuits, Missions, Religious aspects of Communicable diseases, History, Modern 1601-, 15.52 Roman Empire, Aspect religieux, Disease Outbreaks, Early church, Histoire religieuse, 15.85 history of America, Église, Jésuites, Primitive and early church, Religious Missions, 11.50 church history and history of doctrine: general, Europa, Christentum, Zending, Histoire, Mission, Christianisierung, Maladies infectieuses, Ancient History, Medieval History, Rampen, Christianisme, Jesuiten, Mexico, history, Rome, history, Religious aspectsPlaces
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Plagues, priests, and demons: sacred narratives and the rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
2005, Cambridge University Press
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Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
December 6, 2004, Cambridge University Press
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in English
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Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
December 6, 2004, Cambridge University Press
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in English
0521600502 9780521600507
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction-- Conclusion
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-279) and index
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