Space and conversion in global perspective / / edited by Giuseppe Marcocci [and three others] ; contributors, Paolo Aranha [and eleven others].

• Superior document: Intersections, Volume 35
• TeilnehmendeR: Marcocci, Giuseppe,; Aranha, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines experiences of conversion as they intersect with physical location, mobility, and interiority. The volume’s innovative approach is global and encompasses multiple religious traditions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force in early modern globalization. In thirteen essays, the book ranges from the urban settings of Granada and Cuzco to mission stations in Latin America and South India; from villages in Ottoman Palestine and Middle-Volga Russia to Italian hospitals and city squares; and from Atlantic slave ships to the inner life of a Muslim turned Jesuit. Drawing on extensive archival and iconographic materials, this collection invites scholars to rethink conversion in light of the spatial turn. Contributors are: Paolo Aranha, Emanuele Colombo, Irene Fosi, Mercedes García-Arenal, Agnieszka Jagodzińska, Aliocha Maldavsky, Giuseppe Marcocci, Susana Bastos Mateus, Adriano Prosperi, Gabriela Ramos, Rocco Sacconaghi, Felicita Tramontana, Guillermo Wilde, and Oxana Zemtsova.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Space, Conversion, and Global History / Giuseppe Marcocci , Wietse de Boer , Aliocha Maldavsky and Ilaria Pavan -- 1 Granada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a City / Mercedes García-Arenal -- 2 Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European Context / Adriano Prosperi -- 3 The Incas of Cuzco and the Transformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial Rule / Gabriela Ramos -- 4 The Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian Villages / Felicita Tramontana -- 5 Christian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Agnieszka Jagodzińska -- 6 The Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon / Susana Bastos Mateus -- 7 The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century / Irene Fosi -- 8 The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) / Guillermo Wilde -- 9 The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy / Paolo Aranha -- 10 Saltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian World / Giuseppe Marcocci -- 11 Giving for the Mission: The Encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century Andes / Aliocha Maldavsky -- 12 Telling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim Jesuit / Emanuele Colombo and Rocco Sacconaghi -- 13 Confessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century) / Oxana Zemtsova -- Index Nominum.