Keywords
Jesuits
Global Network
Missionaries in the New World
Mexico
Sonora
Arizona
globalization
missionizing
Eusebio Kino
Joseph Stoecklein
Welt-Bott
Ignaz Pfefferkorn
Philipp Segesser
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Abstract
One of the most successful missionary organization, the Jesuits, also operated in northern Mexico in the area today identified as the Sonoran Desert, comprising the Mexican state of Sonora and the US state of Arizona. By the early eighteenth century increasingly German-speaking missionaries arrived and worked hard in the wide network of missions originally established by the pioneer Padre Eusebio Kino (d. 1711) to spread God's words. They also worked intensively on studying that territory and produced numerous written records about their experiences, their research, and the conditions of that world. They were expelled in 1767 and banned globally in 1783, but until then they achieved greatest success with the native population. Their missionary accounts prove to be highly exiting historical, anthropological, religious, and scientific documents most important for missionary history.
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