Title: Plagues, Priests, and Demons
Description: 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.
Subjects: Christianity, Church history, Communicable diseases, History, Jesuits, Missions, Religious aspects of Communicable diseases, History, Modern 1601-, 15.52 Roman Empire, Aspect religieux, Disease Outbreaks, Early church, Histoire religieuse, 15.85 history of America, Église, Jésuites, Primitive and early church, Religious Missions, 11.50 church history and history of doctrine: general, Europa, Christentum, Zending, Histoire, Mission, Christianisierung, Maladies infectieuses, Ancient History, Medieval History, Rampen, Christianisme, Jesuiten, Mexico, history, Rome, history, Religious aspects
Places: Mexico
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600