Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521600507)

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
ISBN-10: 0521600502
ISBN-13: 9780521600507
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2004
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.88w x 0.76d