Daniel T. Reff

Broschiertes Buch

Plagues, Priests, and Demons

Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New

Beschreibung

Plagues, Priests, and Demons is a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and colonial Mexico. Analysis of early Christian and Spanish missionary texts reveals that epidemic disease undermined pre-Christian societies, encouraging pagan and Indian interest in new forms of social and religious life.

Autor

Daniel T. Reff is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is an anthropologist and enthnohistorian who has done research in northern Mexico, the American Southwest, Spaink and Portugal. He is the author of several articles on colonial Mexico in such journals as American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, and Ethnohistory. He is the author of Disease, Depopulation, and Culture Change in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764 (1991). He has been a resident scholar at the School of American Research and is the recipient of major research grants as well as a University Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521600507
• ISBN-10: 0521600502
• Artikelnr.: 14727777

Rezensionen

'... a brilliant book ...' British Medical Journal