About This Issue

This is our second issue on Native Americans. The first, published in the spring of 1998, was a collection of historical and theological articles analyzing the seventeenth to late twentieth centuries, weaving together such strands as conflict, adaptation, compartmentalism (i.e., placing native traditions and Catholicism in separate compartments), inculturation and syncretism. This comparative study breaks open the dynamics of religion and culture with emphasis on various forms of catecheses in distinctive contexts.

We are pleased to publish such splendid articles by experienced scholars. James T. Carroll is Professor of History at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Mark Clatterbuck teaches history and English at Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Ross Enochs is a tenured Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Mark G. Thiel is an archivist at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Christopher Vecsey is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Native American Studies and Religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.