Bibliograph

Missions begin with blood, suffering and salvation in the borderlands of new Spain, Brandon Bayne

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Missions begin with blood, suffering and salvation in the borderlands of new Spain, Brandon Bayne

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-309) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Missions begin with blood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1178647131

Responsibility statement

Brandon Bayne

Series statement

Catholic practice in North America

Sub title

suffering and salvation in the borderlands of new Spain

Summary

"While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native "idolatries," or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity"--, Provided by publisher

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