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Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
PLAGUES, PRIESTS, AND DEMONS
Drawing from anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary the-
ory,
Plagues, Priests, and Demons
explores significant parallels in the rise
of Christianity in the late Roman Empire and colonial Mexico. Evi-
dence shows that new forms of infectious disease devastated the late
Roman Empire and Indian America, respectively, contributing to pa-
gan and Indian interest in Christianity. Christian clerics and monks in
early medieval Europe, and later Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico,
introduced new beliefs and practices as well as accommodated indige-
nous religions, especially through the cult of the saints. The book is
simultaneously a comparative study of early Christian and later Spanish
missionary texts. Similarities in the two literatures are attributed to simi-
lar cultural–historical forces that governed the “rise of Christianity” in
Europe and the Americas.
Daniel T. Reff is an associate professor in the Department of Compara-
tive Studies at Ohio State University. He is an anthropologist and enth-
nohistorian who has done research in northern Mexico, the American
Southwest, Spain, and Portugal. He is the author of numerous articles on
colonial Mexico in journals such as
American Anthropologist
,
American
Antiquity
, and
Ethnohistory
.Heisthe author of
Disease, Depopulation,
and Culture Change in Northwestern New Spain, 1518–1764
(1991), and
editor and co-translator (with Maureen Ahern and Richard Danford)
of the first critical, English-language edition of Andres Perez de Ribas’s
History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith Amongst the Most Barbarous
and Fierce Peoples of the New World
(1999 [1645]). 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.
Plagues, Priests, and Demons
Sacred Narratives and the Rise of
Christianity in the Old World
and the New
DANIEL T. REFF
Ohio State University
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
one
Introduction
1
two
Disease and the Rise of Christianity in Europe, 150–800
C.E.
35
three
Disease and the Rise of Christianity in the New World: The Jesuit
Missions of Colonial Mexico
122
four
The Relevance of Early Christian Literature to Jesuit Missionaries
in Colonial Mexico
207
vii
CONTENTS
Conclusion
237
Bibliography
245
Index
281
viii
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