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As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic currents that shaped Spain and Mexico across the 18th century. Further, Serra’s reception in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries has often been obscured by the controversies surrounding his treatment of California’s Indians. This volume situates Serra in the larger Spanish and Mexican contexts within which he lived, learned, and came of age. Offering a rare glimpse into Serra’s life, these essays capture the full complexity of cultural trends and developments that paved the way for this powerful missionary to become not only California’s most polarizing historical figure but also North America’s first Spanish colonial saint.
Price: $70.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Western Histories
Publication Date:
23 February 2018
ISBN: 9780520968165
Format: eBook
PART ONE. MALLORCA: FROM STUDENT TO PROFESSOR
Junípero Serra’s Mallorcan Origins
Josep Juan Vidal
Father Junípero Serra’s Education and Ideology
Antoni Picazo Muntaner
Eiusque Manu Scriptus: Junípero Serra’s Mallorcan Class Notes
John Dagenais
PART TWO. MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA: SERRA AS MISSIONARY
Junípero Serra’s Mission Muse: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and Her Writings
Anna M. Nogar
Inside the Cloister: Exploring the Life of Fray Junípero Serra in the College of San Fernando
David Rex Galindo
Serra among the Faithful: The Popular Mission
Karen Melvin
Within the Confessional: Franciscan Utopias and Daily Practices in Mission San Carlos
José Refugio de la Torre Curiel
Junípero Serra’s Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
PART THREE. ART AND ARCHITECTURE: THE AESCTHETIC EYE OF SERRA
Junípero Serra’s Tastes and the Art and Architecture of the California Missions
Clara Bargellini and Pamela Huckins
Between Worlds: Junípero Serra and the Paintings of José de Páez
Cynthia Neri Lewis
PART FOUR. JUNÍPERO SERRA: INVENTION AND CONSUMPTION
The Invention of Junípero Serra and the “Spanish Craze”
Richard L. Kagan
The Public Consumption of Junípero Serra
Michael K. Komanecky
Junípero Serra’s Mallorcan Origins
Josep Juan Vidal
Father Junípero Serra’s Education and Ideology
Antoni Picazo Muntaner
Eiusque Manu Scriptus: Junípero Serra’s Mallorcan Class Notes
John Dagenais
PART TWO. MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA: SERRA AS MISSIONARY
Junípero Serra’s Mission Muse: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and Her Writings
Anna M. Nogar
Inside the Cloister: Exploring the Life of Fray Junípero Serra in the College of San Fernando
David Rex Galindo
Serra among the Faithful: The Popular Mission
Karen Melvin
Within the Confessional: Franciscan Utopias and Daily Practices in Mission San Carlos
José Refugio de la Torre Curiel
Junípero Serra’s Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
PART THREE. ART AND ARCHITECTURE: THE AESCTHETIC EYE OF SERRA
Junípero Serra’s Tastes and the Art and Architecture of the California Missions
Clara Bargellini and Pamela Huckins
Between Worlds: Junípero Serra and the Paintings of José de Páez
Cynthia Neri Lewis
PART FOUR. JUNÍPERO SERRA: INVENTION AND CONSUMPTION
The Invention of Junípero Serra and the “Spanish Craze”
Richard L. Kagan
The Public Consumption of Junípero Serra
Michael K. Komanecky