Mission Communities Research Articles

Social interaction between civil, military, and mission communities in Spanish colonial Texas during the height of the Bourbon reforms, 1763-1772

In the occupation and colonization ofthe province of Texas, situated in the vast nortbeast corner of Nueva Espana, roughly bounded by the Red River, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Rio Nueces, late in the l7th century the govemment deployed Franciscanmissionaries and presidial soldiers into te wilderness to convert mdigenous cultures. Viewed as a more humane and less expensive doctrine of royal policy, the process of conversion involved a tandem arrangement between representatives of the state and the church.l In te 1 St century, government officials introduced the municipality into te dynamics ofthe colonial experience in Texas.2 Across the northern arc of te Viceroyalty of New Spain in the mid1 8th century, no other community included more frontiermissions grouped in closeproximity than San Antonio de Bexar. Established in 1718, when Spanish officials installed the rnstic foundations of Mission San Antonio de Valero and Presidio San Antonio de Bexar in te central region of Texas, the settlement tottered as afledgling outpost for about two years. In 1720, the Marques de Aguayo, newly

The impact of the Grenfell Mission on southeastern Labrador communities

AbstractDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries British medical missionary Wilfred Grenfell created a mission in northern Newfoundland and Labrador, now part of eastern Canada. The Grenfell Mission's approach to health, educational, agricultural and industrial development are described and its impact on the southeastern Labrador region is examined. The mission changed the region's settlement pattern and economy by creating centralized mission communities: however, its failure to generate sustained economic alternatives to fishing and trapping inadvertently paved the way for the economic dependency still characteristic of the region. The Grenfell case confirms the need for viable development scenarios and for meaningful local participation in community development.

Book Review: The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa

Book Review: The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa

Anglicans in Kenya - The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa, Anglicans and Africans in Colonial Kenya, 1875–1935. By R. W. Strayer. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1978. Pp. ix + 174. £8.50 (£2.50 paperback).

Anglicans in Kenya - The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa, Anglicans and Africans in Colonial Kenya, 1875–1935. By R. W. Strayer. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1978. Pp. ix + 174. £8.50 (£2.50 paperback). - Volume 22 Issue 1

Reviews

E. F. Osborn: Ethical Patterns in Early Christian Thought.B. K. Lackner and K. R. Philp (eds): Essays on Medieval Civilization.Emile Male: Religious Art in France, The Twelfth Century: A Study of Medieval Iconography.Erwin Panofsky (ed.): Abbot Suger, On the Abbey Church of St Denis and its Art Treasures.Nicholas Temperley: The Music of the English Parish Church.Frederick V. Mills Sr: Bishops by Ballot: An Eighteenth Century Ecclesiastical Revolution.Robert W. Strayer: The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa: Anglicans and Africans in Colonial Kenya.Margaret M. Press: Julian Tenison Woods.Michael McKernan: Australian Churches at War: Attitudes and Activities of the Major Churches, 1914–1918.

The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa

The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa

The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa: Anglicans and Africans in Colonial Kenya, 1875-1935

The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa: Anglicans and Africans in Colonial Kenya, 1875-1935

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:Contemporary Missiology: An Introduction by J. Verkuyl, translated and edited by Dak Cooper, William B. Eerdmans, Grand RapidsThe Making of Mission Communities in East Africa by Robert W. StrayerThe Open Secret by Lesslie Newbigin, William B. EerdmansChina: Search For Community by Raymond L. and Rhea M. WhiteheadThe End of an Era — Africa and the Missionary, by Elliot Kendall

The Function of the Market in Changing Economic Structures in the Mission Communities of Pimería Alta, 1768-1821

The initial thrust of Spanish conquest and colonization in Northwest Mexico, as throughout the great Chichimec frontier, was centered in the mission. Under the terms of thepatronato real, the mission served as an instrument of Spanish imperial policy, aimed to accomplish the pacification and acculturation to Christian and Hispanic norms of society, of the semi-nomadic peoples who occupied the vast regions of mountain barrancas, mesas and valleys, coastal plains and desert lands to the north of the Mesoamerican civilizations.The mission communities were designed to place the Indians in fixed settlements, thereby preparing the way for civil colonization and further exploitation of the potential riches of these remote dominions of the Kingdom of Castile. The Indians gathered into the missions represented to the Crown a force for productivity as field and mine laborers. Although mission Indians were exempt from tribute, in the Northwest, the surplus produce from mission lands contributed to the economy of the region; and, as early as the seventeenth century, mission Indians appeared in the mines of Sonora and Chihuahua.