Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New

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.

Author: Daniel T. Reff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/06/2004
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.88w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780521600507
ISBN10: 0521600502
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | History
- History | Europe | General

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