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

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 globaliz...

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Superior document:Intersections, Volume 35
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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.
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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.