Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
77. Why would Indigenous people venerate Roman Catholic saints?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Daniel E. Nourry Burgos [+]
University of Texas at Austin, PhD candidate
Daniel E. Nourry Burgos is PhD candidate in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He is also a Graduate Portfolio Candidate in both the Native American and Indigenous Studies and The Study of Religion Graduate Portfolio Programs. His research draws methodologically on the disciplines of Religious Studies, Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Ethnohistory and Critical Indigenous Studies in order to analyze the processes that bring into existence the notion of an Indigenous Catholic Martyr-Saint
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It is well known that the Catholic faith arrived upon the shores of the Americas hand in hand with colonization, and so the question is: why would Indigenous people venerate Roman Catholic saints? A deceptively simple answer might be because within the history of saints we find quite a few Indigenous people.