The Church of the Dead Gayle Sherwood Magee based on intensive interviews with

based on intensive interviews with more than sixty citizens from all walks of life and a variety of political orientations

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Drawing on Porges polyvagal theory

examining their experiences of improvisation and the interplay of shaping and letting-go

a brilliantly comprehensive

The Church of the Dead Gayle Sherwood Magee based on intensive interviews withTells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and