florida culture food Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/florida-culture-food Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Florida CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS Religion http://travelsfinders.com/florida-cultural-contributions-religion.html http://travelsfinders.com/florida-cultural-contributions-religion.html#respond Fri, 13 May 2016 18:21:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=204002 Religion in Florida has been heavily influenced by Latinos. During the lengthy Spanish colonial presence, Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries established a far-flung missionary system throughout the coast and interior of Florida. However, in general, these missions were rarely successful in the ways that Spanish missionaries were in places such as Mexico and Peru. Instead, they suffered, as did the colonial enterprise in general in Florida, from underfunding. Moreover, the Indian groups often proved impervious to missionary efforts. The overall result was not the kind of widespread conversion of Indians that took place in densely settled areas of Latin America. Instead,

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