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 possession tha...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bayne, Brandon
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Jesuits.
Jesuits > Missions > Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Missions.
Martyrdom > Christianity.
Agriculture > Religious aspects > Christianity.
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic.
Martyre > Christianisme > Histoire.
Agriculture > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Religion.
Latin American Studies.
History.
Martyrdom > Christianity > History.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Suffering and Salvation
  • 1. Seeds Planting Conversions
  • 2. Weeds: Ritual Confrontations
  • 3. Fruits: Passionate Expansion
  • 4. Deserted: Prolonged Isolation
  • 5. Uprooted: Missionary Expulsion
  • Epilogue. Civilization and Savagery
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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