Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices Book

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: One Stone Throw and Many Ripples xiii

Part 1

1 Good and Evil: A Battleground 3

2 The Religious and the Spiritual: Europe and the Americas 20

3 The Franciscans: Men of the Cloth 35

4 The Jesuits: Diversity of Spirits 42

Part 2

5 Southern Florida: Jesuits and Franciscans 51

6 Northeastern Mexico: Franciscans and Jesuits 64

7 Texas: The Franciscans and Their Method 107

8 Baja California: Jesuits and Franciscans 131

9 Alta California: Franciscans 164

10 Daily Schedules and Yearly Calendars 192

Part 3

11 The City of God: Religious Practices 213

12 The City of Man: Economic Practices 238

Conclusion: A Summa of Many Parts 259

Notes 269

References Cited 275

Index 289