Description: "In 1576 a catastrophic epidemic devastated Indigenous Mexican communities and left the colonial church in ruins. With its horrific final symptom of hemorrhage from the nose, the unfamiliar disease, which the Nahua named cocoliztli, took almost two million lives. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of church in the Americas"--
Brief description: Jennifer Scheper Hughes is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Riverside and author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present.
Review Quotes: "Jennifer Scheper Hughes breathes new life into an important topic...Readers of this journal will be most impressed by Hughes's theological readings of her primary sources."-- "American Religion"