Converting California
eBook - PDF

Converting California

Indians and Franciscans in the Missions

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Converting California

Indians and Franciscans in the Missions

About this book

This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the religious conflict between the two groups, it sheds new light on the tensions, accomplishments, and limitations of the California mission experience.

James A. Sandos, an eminent authority on the American West, traces the history of the Franciscan missions from the creation of the first one in 1769 until they were turned over to the public in 1836. Addressing such topics as the singular theology of the missions, the role of music in bonding Indians to Franciscan enterprises, the diseases caused by contact with the missions, and the Indian resistance to missionary activity, Sandos not only describes what happened in the California missions but offers a persuasive explanation for why it happened.

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300129120
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Ministry

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. California’s Missions as Instruments of Social Control
  5. 2. Indians at Contact
  6. 3. Junípero Serra and Franciscan Evangelization
  7. 4. The Indians of San Diego Say ‘‘No!’’
  8. 5. Serra Refuses to Turn Back
  9. 6. Fermín Francisco Lasuén and Evangelization
  10. 7. Evangelization in Serra’s Shadow
  11. 8. ‘‘The Only Heritage Their Parents Gave Them’’: Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Other Diseases
  12. 9. Music and Conversion
  13. 10. Indian Resistance to Missionization
  14. 11. Assessing California’s Missions
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index