TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,Jennifer Scheper
TI  - The church of the dead: the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas 
T2  - North American religions
SN  - 9781479802555
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Mexico
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface. Mortandad : requiem -- Introduction. Ecclesia ex mortuis : Mexican elegy and the church of the dead -- Theologia medicinalis : medicine as sacrament of the mortandad -- Corpus coloniae mysticum : indigenous bodies and the body of Christ -- Walking landscapes of loss after the mortandad : spectral geographies in a ruined world -- 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 counter-history of Christianity in the Americas
N2  - "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"--
ER  -