Space and Conversion in Global Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28062-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Intersections

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 Jagodzinska, Aliocha Maldavsky, Giuseppe Marcocci, Susana Bastos Mateus, Adriano Prosperi, Gabriela Ramos, Rocco Sacconaghi, Felicita Tramontana, Guillermo Wilde, and Oxana Zemtsova.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Marcocci, Giuseppe

Maldavsky, Aliocha

Boer, Wietse de

Pavan, Ilaria

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Space, Conversion, and Global History

GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI, WIETSE DE BOER, ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY, ILARIA PAVAN

PART ONE: CITY AND COUNTRY
Granada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a City
MERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL
Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European Context
ADRIANO PROSPERI
The Incas of Cuzco and the Transformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial Rule
GABRIELA RAMOS
The Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian Villages
FELICITA TRAMONTANA
Christian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
AGNIESZKA JAGODZINSKA

PART TWO: SEGREGATION AND PERMEABILITY
The Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon
SUSANA BASTOS MATEUS
The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century
IRENE FOSI
The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
GUILLERMO WILDE
The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy
PAOLO ARANHA

PART THREE: DISTANCE AND MOBILITY
Saltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian World
GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI
Giving for the Mission: The encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century Andes
ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY
Telling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim Jesuit
EMANUELE COLOMBO AND ROCCO SACCONAGHI
Confessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century)
OXANA ZEMTSOVA

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Marcocci, Ph.D. (2008), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tuscia. He has published widely on the Portuguese world, including L’invenzione di un impero: Politica e cultura nel mondo portoghese, 1450-1600 (Carocci, 2011).

Wietse de Boer, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of History at Miami University (Ohio). His publications are focused on the Italian Counter-Reformation, most recently Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe (Intersections 26, 2013), co-edited with Christine Göttler.

Aliocha Maldavsky, Ph.D. (2000), is Assistant Professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. She has published Vocaciones inciertas. Misión y misioneros en la provincia jesuita del Perú en los siglos XVI y XVII (CSIC-IFEA-Universidad Ruiz de Montoya, 2012).

Ilaria Pavan, Ph.D. (2003), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is Assistant Professor of Late Modern History. She has published monographs, and many articles on Italian Jewish History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.