The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas by Jennifer Scheper Hughes

The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas

North American Religions

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

272 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americ...

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