Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions.(Book Review)

From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. By James A. Sandos. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xx + 251 pp. $35.00 cloth.

James Sandos is not the first to tackle this piece of California religious history. He enters a conversation largely polarized between those scholars who support a positive view of the Franciscan missions, some advocating the canonization of Fray Junipero Serra, and those who support a negative view charging the Franciscan missionaries with insensitivity, cruelty, and in some cases genocide. He characterizes these two ...

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