Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America : Parish, Church, and Mission / edited by Kathleen Deagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deagan, Kathleen Anne, 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Catholic Church.

Indians of North America--Missions--Florida--History--16th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Missions--Florida--History--17th century.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame, [2024]

Summary:

"Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America explores the ways in which the church negotiated the founding of a Catholic society in colonial America, beginning in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. Although the church was deeply involved in all aspects of daily life and institutional organization, the book underscores the tensions inherent in creating and sustaining a Catholic tradition in an unfamiliar and socially diverse population. Using new primary academic scholarship, the contributors explore missionaries' accommodations to Catholic practice in the process of conversion; the ways in which social and racial differentiation were played out in the treatment of the dead; Native literacy and the production of religious texts; the impacts of differing conversion philosophies among various religious orders; and the historical and theological backgrounds of Catholicism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century America. Bringing together insights from archaeology, social history, linguistics, and theology, this groundbreaking volume moves beyond the missions to reveal how Native people, friars, secular priests, and Spanish parishioners practiced Catholicism across what is now the southeastern United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

St. Augustine's parishioners / Susan Richbourg Parker

Georgia's long-lost Spanish missions / David Hurst Thomas

Doctrinas and visitas among the Mocama / Keith Ashley.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268207540

0268207542

9780268207571

0268207577