Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain
(Part of the Catholic Practice in North America Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0823294196
ISBN13:9780823294190
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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