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University of California-Riverside: New Book Explores How Plague Shaped Christianity in the Americas
August 06, 2021
RIVERSIDE, California, Aug. 6 (TNSRes) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:

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Jennifer Scheper Hughes details the Roman Catholic Church's transformation in the Americas following an unidentified epidemic, and how Indigenous Mexicans rebuilt it in the aftermath

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During the first century of American colonization, as many as 20 million people in Mexico perished from disease, violence, and exploi . . .

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