Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New by Daniel T. Reff

Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New

Daniel T. Reff

306 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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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 fo...

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