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100	1		_aHughes, Jennifer Scheper, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe church of the dead : _bthe epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas / _cJennifer Scheper Hughes.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c[2021]
300			_axviii, 245 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aNorth American religions
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface. 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aCatholic Church _zMexico _xHistory _y16th century.
650		0	_aEpidemics _zMexico _xHistory _y16th century.
651		0	_aMexico _xChurch history _y16th century.
830		0	_aNorth American religions.
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