"This is a good study of Christianity in Indigenous communities on the fringes of Spanish power. It uses many missionary accounts and a wide range of secondary literature in several languages. It is carefully done and provides useful, interesting insights."—P. Grendler, Choice
“A major contribution to the history of the Christianization of Indigenous groups at the margins of Spain’s colonial American empire. Herein Oriol Ambrogio Gali comparatively studies the role of the Jesuit missions in three peripheral areas of colonization (northwestern Mexico, south central Chile, and the Gran Chaco), each with a plethora of Native ethnicities, distinct languages and cultures, and considerable resistance to religious change. . . . [An] amazing work of scholarship and research.”—Ramón A. Gutiérrez, author of New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
“Indigenous Sacraments reflects a deep education in church history and missionary history in the New World. Clearly, Ambrogio Gali knows the field inside and out and has immersed himself in the existing scholarship across the Spanish-, English-, German-, and Italian-speaking academic communities. The book is informed by countless well-known missionary chronicles, but also by less-familiar print sources and by substantial archival research.”—Sean F. McEnroe, author of A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas
