Forbidden Passages : Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- The Early Modern Americas Series .
- The Early Modern Americas Series .
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.