Forced conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam: coercion and faith in premodern Iberia and beyond
Introduction: forced conversion and the reshaping of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: tradition, interpretation, history / Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan -- Uses and echoes of Visigothic conciliar legislation in the scholastic controversy on forced baptism (thirteenth and fourteenth...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Numen book series studies in the history of religions
volume 164 Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East volume133 Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iberian Peninsula
/ Jews
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Compulsion
/ History 500-1600
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| Further subjects: | B
Religions
Relations
History To 1500
B Iberian Peninsula Civilization B Iberian Peninsula Religion B Conversion Christianity History To 1500 B Conversion Islam History To 1500 B Conversion Judaism History To 1500 |
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| Summary: | Introduction: forced conversion and the reshaping of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: tradition, interpretation, history / Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan -- Uses and echoes of Visigothic conciliar legislation in the scholastic controversy on forced baptism (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) / Elsa Marmursztejn -- "Qui ex iudeis sunt": Visigothic law and the discrimination against conversos in late medieval Spain / Rosa Vidal Doval -- Theorizing coercion and consent in conversion, apostasy, ordination, and marriage (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) / Isabelle Poutrin -- Again on forced conversion in the Almohad period / Maribel Fierro -- The intellectual genealogy of Almohad policy towards Christians and Jews / David J. Wasserstein -- Medieval Jewish perspectives on Almohad persecutions: memory, repression and impact / Alan Verskin -- On the road to 1391? Abner of Burgos / Alfonso of Valladolid on forced conversion / Ryan Szpiech -- The development of a new language of conversion in fifteenth-century Sephardic Jewry / Ram Ben-Shalom -- Incriminating the Judaizer: inquisitors, intentionality, and the problem of religious ambiguity after forced conversion / Yonatan Glazer-Eytan -- The coerced conversion of convicted Jewish criminals in fifteenth-century Italy / Tamar Herzig -- "Neither through habits, nor solely through will, but through infused faith": Hernando de Talavera's understanding of conversion / Davide Scotto -- Remembering the forced baptism of Jews: law, theology, and history in sixteenth-century Portugal / Giuseppe Marcocci -- Theologies of baptism and forced conversion: the case of the Muslims of Valencia and their children / Mercedes García-Arenal -- Epilogue: conversion and the force of history / David Nirenberg. "Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula but examining related European and Mediterranean contexts as well, Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam traces how Christians, Jews, and Muslims grappled with the contradictory phenomenon of faith brought about by constraint and compulsion. Forced conversion brought into sharp relief the tensions among the accepted notion of faith as a voluntary act, the desire to maintain "pure" communities, and the universal truth claims of radical monotheism. Offering a comparative view of an important yet insufficiently studied phenomenon in the history of religions, this collection of essays explores the ways in which religion and violence reshaped these three religions and the ways we understand them today"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 900441682X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004416826 |