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02436aam a22003978i 4500 001 2119A038F42411EB9533E30756ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210803012850 008 210327s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020047124 020 $a 1479802557 020 $a 9781479802555 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1201178698 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GO4 $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-mx--- 050 00 $a BX1428.3 $b .H84 2021 082 00 $a 282/.7209031 $2 23 100 1 $a Hughes, Jennifer Scheper, $e author. 245 14 $a The church of the dead : $b the epidemic of 1576 and the birth of Christianity in the Americas / $c Jennifer Scheper Hughes. 260 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2021] 263 $a 2108 300 $a xviii, 245 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a North American religions 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Catholic Church $z Mexico $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Epidemics $z Mexico $x History $y 16th century. 651 0 $a Mexico $x Church history $y 16th century. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022959.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010025427.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220201015437.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210803014500.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2119A038F42411EB9533E30756ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search