It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read The Church of the Dead by Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Tells 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 simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios...
The Church of the Dead by Jennifer Scheper Hughes is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.
This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read The Church of the Dead aloud.
The Church of the Dead is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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