Until 1492, Christianity was totally unknown to the indigenous
peoples of the Americas. Although the Native Americans already had
long-established religious cultures of their own, the arrival of
the Christian Europeans made an extremely significant impact on
their lives: over the following five centuries, millions of
American Indians would come to identify themselves as Christians.
Roman Catholicism, and, in terms of numbers of self-identified
American Indian Catholics, Catholicism has remained the dominant
Christian religion among Indian peoples -- for better or worse.
On the Padres' Trail begins with the arrival of Europeans in the
New World and the invasion of the Caribbean, from which author
Christopher Vecsey traces the expansion of Catholicism into New
Spain. He devotes special attention to the history of the Catholic
faith and institutions among the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.
particularly in the years since the establishment of the
Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Then he turns his attention to the history
and effects, both good and bad, of the Catholic missions among the
Indians of California. In the final section of the book, he details
the history of the judgments made about Catholic missionizing in
California (and, by extension, all of New Spain) and closes with
the sometimes critical perspectives of contemporary Native American
Catholics regarding the padres who first brought Catholicism to
their ancestors.
On the Padres' Trail, the first volume in Professor Vecsey's
three-volume American Indian Catholics series, is an invaluable
additon to current scholarship on the history of the Catholic
Church and to the field of Native American studies.
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