A Tale of Two Missions
Illinois Choices and Conversions at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4879176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michaela Kleber (Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 286-305 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009640722001378 |
| OpenAlex | W4288519272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The Illinois, particularly the Kaskaskia, are well known to have converted in large numbers to Catholicism under the guidance of Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, another lesser-known missionary society, the Missions Étrangères, also evangelized among the Illinois. The juxtaposition of these two French Catholic missionary societies working among the same Native nation provides an ideal case study to understand what aspects of Catholicism Native people appreciated and rejected. Converted Illinois people chose a specific practice of Catholicism that upheld fundamental values, enhanced gender roles and kinship connections in Illinois society, and strengthened their relationship to the secular aspects of the French empire
Ancient history · Chose · Empire · Genealogy · Ideal (ethics) · Kinship · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |