Video: Hackett Lecture: “Toward a Counter-history of Global Christianity”

Spanish imperialism in the Americas gave birth to competing visions of a global church. This talk returns to the difficult origins of Mexican Catholicism, arguably the oldest extant expression of Christianity in the Americas, to reflect on the global pasts and global futures of Christianity.  

JENNIFER SCHEPER HUGHES, (MDiv ’96), HDS 2024-25 Yang Fellow of Global Christianity, professor, University of California, Riverside, Dept. of History, focuses on the lived history of Latin American Christianity with special consideration for the religious lives of Mexican and Mexican American Catholics. Publishers Weekly named her book, The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (NYU Press, 2021), one of the 2021 top five academic books on religion. She is Co-PI of the University of California Critical Mission Studies project supporting Indigenous perspectives on the California Missions and their aftermath.  

View the full recording of the Hackett Lecture by Jennifer Scheper Hughes: “Toward a Counter-history of Global Christianity: Reflections on Brokenness and Transcendence from Mexican Catholicism.”