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The Church of the Dead : The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas /
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith aliveMany scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | North American Religions ;
11 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Note on Translations
- Preface: Mortandad: Requiem
- Introduction: Ecclesia ex mortuis: Mexican Elegy and the Church of the Dead
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Conclusion. The Church of the Living: Toward a Counterhistory of Christianity in the Americas
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author