The Church of the Dead

ISBN: 9781479802555
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Publisher,New York Univ Pr
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight, 544.31 g
No. of Pages, 245

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--

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