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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1178651305 Title: Missions begin with blood : suffering and salvation in the borderlands of new Spain Author: Brandon L Bayne Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022. ©2022 ISBN/ISSN: 9780823294206 082329420X 9780823294190 0823294196 OCLC:1178651305

  
  

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Missions begin with blood : suffering and salvation in the borderlands of new Spain

Author:	Brandon L Bayne
Publisher:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2022. ©2022
Series:	Catholic practice in North America.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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"--  Read more...
Subjects	Jesuits -- Missions -- Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. Martyrdom -- Christianity -- History. Agriculture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. View all subjects
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