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

1. Introduction; 2. Epidemic disease and the rise of Christianity in Europe, 150?800 CE; 3. The rise of Christianity in the New World: the Jesuit missions of colonial Mexico, 1591?1660; 4. The relevance of Early Christian literature to missionaries in colonial Latin America; 5. Conclusion.