reducciones jesuiticas 20
Religious missions in America, also called reductions, were indigenous villages organized and administered by Jesuit priests in the new world as part of its civilizing and evangelizing work. The main objective of the religious missions was to create a society with the benefits and qualities of the Christian society European, but absent from the vices and evils that characterized it. These missions were founded by the Jesuits in all of colonial America, and according to Manuel Marzal, synthesizing the vision of other scholars, constitute one of the most notable utopias of the historia.1