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"The Church of the Dead": Book Lecture with Author Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Join a lecture with author Jennifer Scheper Hughes on her recent book, "Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas."

10/31/2024
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Carson 312
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

In her counter-history of American Christian origins, Jennifer Scheper Hughes centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact after the catastrophic epidemic in 1576, that took almost two million lives and left the colonial Spanish church in ruins. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Church of the Dead provides with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history.

Join the History Department Tuesday, 11.5.2024 at 12:15 PM, in Carson Hall classroom 312. 

For more information, contact:
Pamela Voekel
pamela.voekel@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://history.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=76022

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