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 alive Many scholars have come
to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an
inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the
brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered
a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and
simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and
its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos
de indios held radically different visions for the future of
Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a
counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power
of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained
intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of
Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their
failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair,
Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They
reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous
Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the
power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is
thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous
Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding
condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival
study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of
medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating
reexamination of North American religious history that is at once
groundbreaking and lyrical.
General
| Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
North American Religions |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
264 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4798-2593-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4798-2593-X |
| Barcode: |
9781479825936 |
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