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

"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 possessi...

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Main Author: Bayne, Brandon (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Fordham University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Catholic practice in North America
Further subjects:B Martyrdom Christianity History
B Agriculture Religious aspects Christianity
B Jesuits Missions (Mexico) History Spanish colony, 1540-1810
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