Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain

by Brandon Bayne

Book Overview

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"