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Forbidden Passages : Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Early Modern Americas SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292909
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forbidden PassagesDDC classification:
  • 946.02
LOC classification:
  • F1419.M87 -- .C665 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Forbidden Passages -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Who Were the Moriscos? Introducing a Transatlantic Story -- 2. Into the Atlantic: Justifying Title and Establishing Dominion -- 3. Forbidden Crossings: Emigration Legislation and Morisco Responses -- 4. "These Hidden Heretics": The Politics of Morisco Religiosity -- 5. Healers and Diviners: Morisco Practitioners in the New World -- 6. "Polvos del Gran Turco": Moriscos and Magical Practice in Spanish America -- 7. Honor, Lineage, Ovandina: The Dynamics of Accusations and Religious Intolerance -- 8. Images of Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos--Christian converts from Islam--in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.
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Cover -- Forbidden Passages -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Who Were the Moriscos? Introducing a Transatlantic Story -- 2. Into the Atlantic: Justifying Title and Establishing Dominion -- 3. Forbidden Crossings: Emigration Legislation and Morisco Responses -- 4. "These Hidden Heretics": The Politics of Morisco Religiosity -- 5. Healers and Diviners: Morisco Practitioners in the New World -- 6. "Polvos del Gran Turco": Moriscos and Magical Practice in Spanish America -- 7. Honor, Lineage, Ovandina: The Dynamics of Accusations and Religious Intolerance -- 8. Images of Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos--Christian converts from Islam--in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.

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