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Plagues, Priests, and Demons

Author : Daniel T. Reff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139442787
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Plagues, Priests, and Demons written by Daniel T. Reff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary theory, Plagues, Priests, and Demons explores significant parallels in the rise of Christianity in the late Roman empire and colonial Mexico. Evidence shows that new forms of infectious disease devastated the late Roman empire and Indian America, respectively, contributing to pagan 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 indigenous 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 similar cultural-historical forces that governed the 'rise of Christianity' in Europe and the Americas.

Plagues, Priests, and Demons

Author : Daniel T. Reff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521840781
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Plagues, Priests, and Demons written by Daniel T. Reff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 forms of social and religious life. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe and, later, Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, reacted by introducing new beliefs and practices and accommodating indigenous religions as well.

A Plague of Demons

Author : Gordon Ashe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780091255602
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Plague of Demons written by Gordon Ashe and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Plague of Demons

Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Plague of Demons written by Keith Laumer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Demon Plagues

Author : David VanDyke
Publisher : David Vandyke
ISBN 13 : 9781626260405
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Demon Plagues written by David VanDyke and published by David Vandyke. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of the Plague Wars military science fiction series. Ten years after Infection Day, Daniel Markis struggles to unite a shattered world in the face of nuclear attack and extraterrestrial plagues, while others grasp for power and dark technologies. Skull mounts a one-man campaign to thwart the fascist Unionists, while Jill Repeth, Spooky Nguyen and his team gamble their lives to change the course of the Second Cold War. Plague Wars Series: - The Eden Plague - Reaper's Run - The Demon Plagues - The Reaper Plague - The Orion Plague - Cyborg Strike - Comes the Destroyer Stellar Conquest Series: The Plague Wars continue 100 years later! - Planetary Assault (contains First Conquest: Book 1) - Desolator: Book 2 - Tactics of Conquest: Book 3 - Conquest of Earth: Book 4 PG-13 for language, violence and adult situations (non-explicit)

Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire

Author : Yaron Ayalon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107072972
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire written by Yaron Ayalon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

Germs, Genes, & Civilization

Author : David Clark
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0137068689
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Germs, Genes, & Civilization written by David Clark and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germs, Genes and Civilization, Dr. David Clark tells the story of the microbe-driven epidemics that have repeatedly molded our human destinies. You'll discover how your genes have been shaped through millennia spent battling against infectious diseases. You'll learn how epidemics have transformed human history, over and over again, from ancient Egypt to Mexico, the Romans to Attila the Hun. You'll learn how the Black Death epidemic ended the Middle Ages, making possible the Renaissance, western democracy, and the scientific revolution. Clark demonstrates how epidemics have repeatedly shaped not just our health and genetics, but also our history, culture, and politics. You'll even learn how they may influence religion and ethics, including the ways they may help trigger cultural cycles of puritanism and promiscuity. Perhaps most fascinating of all, Clark reveals the latest scientific and philosophical insights into the interplay between microbes, humans, and society - and previews what just might come next.

World Christianity and Indigenous Experience

Author : David Lindenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108917070
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book World Christianity and Indigenous Experience written by David Lindenfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David Lindenfeld proposes a new dimension to the study of world history. Here, he explores the global expansion of Christianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it, and helped change it, giving them active agency. Integrating the study of religion into world history, his volume surveys indigenous experience in colonial Latin America, Native North America, Africa and the African diaspora, the Middle East, India, East Asia, and the Pacific. Lindenfeld demonstrates how religion is closely interwoven with political, economic, and social history. Wide-ranging in scope, and offering a synoptic perspective of our interconnected world, Lindenfeld combines in-depth analysis of individual regions with comprehensive global coverage. He also provides a new vocabulary, with a spectrum ranging from resistance to acceptance and commitment to Christianity, that articulates the range and complexity of the indigenous conversion experience. Lindenfeld's cross-cultural reflections provide a compelling alternative to the Western narrative of progressive development.

Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421420066
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans. Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care. "A succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era . . . It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—Journal of the American Medical Association "In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity."—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "Readable and widely researched . . . an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture."—Missiology: An International Review Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.

Science in the Vanished Arcadia

Author : Miguel de Asúa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004256776
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Science in the Vanished Arcadia written by Miguel de Asúa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Science in the Vanished Arcadia Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Popular Religion in Russia

Author : Stella Rock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134369786
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Popular Religion in Russia written by Stella Rock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by paganism, with 'double-believing' Christians consciously or unconsciously preserving pagan traditions even into the twentieth century. This volume shows how the concept of dvoeverie arose with nineteenth-century scholars obsessed with the Russian 'folk' and was perpetuated as a propaganda tool in the Soviet period, colouring our perception of both popular faith in Russian and medieval Russian culture for over a century. It surveys the wide variety of uses of the term from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, and contrasts them to its use in modern historiography, concluding that our modern interpretation of dvoeverie would not have been recognized by medieval clerics, and that 'double-belief' is a modern academic construct. Furthermore, it offers a brief foray into medieval Orthodoxy via the mind of the believer, through the language and literature of the period.

Germs, Genes, and Bacteria

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132788349
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Germs, Genes, and Bacteria written by David Clark and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakthrough bioscience and its implications: 3 extraordinary boks take you to the cutting edge of biology, genetics, evolution, and human health Three remarkable books take you to the cutting edge of biology, genetics, evolution, and human health — explaining the newest science, and revealing its incredible implications! Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today reveals how microbes have shaped our health, genetics, history, culture, politics, religion and ethics… and how they’re shaping our future right now. Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria offers an even closer look at humans’ intimate partnership with bacteria… how they keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together happily in peace. Finally, in It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick, Greg Gibson explains today’s explosion in chronic disease through a revolutionary new hypothesis: our genome is out of equilibrium with itself, its environment, and modern culture. From world-renowned leaders in science and science journalism, including David Clark, Anne Maczulak, and Greg Gibson

Plague in the Early Modern World

Author : Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429777833
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Plague in the Early Modern World written by Dean Phillip Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world. During the early modern period frequent and recurring outbreaks of plague and other epidemics around the world helped to define local identities and they simultaneously forged and subverted social structures, recalibrated demographic patterns, dictated political agendas, and drew upon and tested religious and scientific worldviews. By gathering texts from diverse and often obscure publications and from areas of the globe not commonly studied, Plague in the Early Modern World provides new information and a unique platform for exploring early modern world history from local and global perspectives and examining how early modern people understood and responded to plague at times of distress and normalcy. Including source materials such as memoirs and autobiographies, letters, histories, and literature, as well as demographic statistics, legislation, medical treatises and popular remedies, religious writings, material culture, and the visual arts, the volume will be of great use to students and general readers interested in early modern history and the history of disease.

Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750

Author : William B. Carter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188421
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 written by William B. Carter and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William B. Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement. Combining recent scholarship on southwestern prehistory and the history of northern New Spain, Carter describes how environmental changes shaped American Indian settlement in the Southwest and how Athapaskan and Puebloan peoples formed alliances that endured until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and even afterward. Established initially for trade, Pueblo-Athapaskan ties deepened with intermarriage and developments in the political realities of the region. Carter also shows how Athapaskans influenced Pueblo economies far more than previously supposed, and helped to erode Spanish influence. In clearly explaining Native prehistory, Carter integrates clan origins with archeological data and historical accounts. He then shows how the Spanish conquest of New Mexico affected Native populations and the relations between them. His analysis of the Pueblo Revolt reveals that Athapaskan and Puebloan peoples were in close contact, underscoring the instrumental role that Athapaskan allies played in Native anticolonial resistance in New Mexico throughout the seventeenth century. Written to appeal to both students and general readers, this fresh interpretation of borderlands ethnohistory provides a broad view as well as important insights for assessing subsequent social change in the region.

Missions Begin with Blood

Author : Brandon Bayne
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294218
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Missions Begin with Blood written by Brandon Bayne and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.

The Mosquito

Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774708
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Mosquito written by Timothy C. Winegard and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.

Tropical Idolatry

Author : R. L. Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498566596
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Idolatry written by R. L. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tropical Idolatry, R.L. Green examines how thinkers within the Society of Jesus attempted to convert indigenous peoples of New Spain, the Philippine Islands, and the Mariana Islands to Catholicism during the early modern period. Through the close readings of Jesuit authored theological treatises and historical texts, all placed firmly within a rich, vibrant, and nuanced Catholic intellectual tradition, the evolution of ideas on the topic of indigenous religion within an imperial context becomes apparent. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the importance that both religious and political beliefs played in the establishment of the Church in the Spanish Pacific world. The intent is to reconsider some commonly held assumptions regarding the Jesuit missionary enterprise and its role in the origins of global Catholicism.