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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Florida—History—16th century [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Florida—History—17th century [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Religion—History [Browse]
• Florida—Church history—16th century [Browse]
• Florida—Church history—17th century [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Editor

• Deagan, Kathleen A. [Browse]

Contributor

• Deagan, Kathleen A. [Browse]

Summary note

"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."-- Publisher's website, viewed on May 14, 2024.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• A word to the read / Santiago Cabanas, ambassador of Spain to the United States
• Foreword / Cándido Creís Estrada, former Consul General of Spain in Miami
• Introduction / Kathleen Deagan
• St. Augustine's parishioners : the heart of the community / Susan Richbourg Parker
• Death and burial in Spanish St. Augustine / Kathleen Deagan
• Mission and shrine : Nombre de Dios and Nuestra Señora de la Leche y Buen Parto, 1587-1763 / Kathleen Deagan
• Georgia's long-lost Spanish missions / David Hurst Thomas
• Legacies of literacies : Fray Francisco Pareja and Timucuan communities in colonial Spanish Florida / George Aaron Broadwell and Timothy J. Johnson
• Doctrinas and visitas among the Mocama / Keith Ashley
• Spanish missions of north-central Florida / Gifford Waters
• Apalachee Province / Rochelle Marrinan
• The dream of an order : Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Catholic Church in Florida / José Antonio Crespo-Francés.

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ISBN

• 9780268207557 ((hardback))
• 0268207550 ((hardback))

OCLC

1432994568

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