To Sin No More: Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503603261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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From these colleges Franciscans proselytized Indians in frontier territories as well as Catholics in rural and urban areas in eighteenth-century Spain and Spanish America. To Sin No More is the first book to study these colleges, their missionaries, and their multifaceted, sweeping missionary programs. For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. Rex Galindo argues that Franciscan missionaries aimed to reform or "reawaken" Catholic parishioners just as much as they sought to convert non-Christian Indians.. This book explores the motivations driving Franciscan friars, their lives inside the colleges, their training, and their ministry among Catholics, an often-overlooked duty that paralleled missionary deployments. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of prop
. About the AuthorDavid Rex Galindo is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
. David Rex Galindo is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History