{"product_id":"missions-begin-with-blood-suffering-and-salvation-in-the-borderlands-of-new-spain-hardback-9780823294206","title":"Missions Begin with Blood; Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain (Hardback) 9780823294206","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMissions Begin with Blood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSuffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrandon Bayne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294206\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 9 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.652 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMissions Begin with Blood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e   xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Suffering and Salvation   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eSeeds: Planting Conversions   29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eWeeds: Ritual Confrontations   61\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eFruits: Passionate Expansion   95\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eDeserted: Prolonged Isolation   133\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eUprooted: Missionary Expulsion   170\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Civilization and Savagery   199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  219\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  277\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  311\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580462657816,"sku":"9780823294206","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/missions-begin-with-blood-suffering-and-salvation-in-the-borderlands-of-new-spain-hardback-9780823294206","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}