Space and Conversion in Global Perspective.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Intersections Series ; v.35 .
- Intersections Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Space, Conversion, and Global History -- Part 1 City and Country -- Chapter 1 Granada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a City -- Chapter 2 Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European Context -- Chapter 3 The Incas of Cuzco and the Тransformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial Rule -- Chapter 4 The Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian Villages -- Chapter 5 Christian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Part 2 Segregation and Permeability -- Chapter 6 The Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon -- Chapter 7 The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 8 The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 9 The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy -- Part 3 Distance and Mobility -- Chapter 10 Saltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian World -- Chapter 11 Giving for the Mission: The Encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century Andes -- Chapter 12 Telling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim Jesuit -- Chapter 13 Confessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century) -- Index Nominum.
Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines conversion in connection with spatial setting, mobility, and interiority. The approach is global and encompasses multiple religions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force of early modern globalization.
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Conversion. Religion and geography. Globalization--Religious aspects.