Forced conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam : coercion and faith in premodern Iberia and beyond /

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 co...

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Other Authors: García-Arenal, Mercedes (Editor), Glazer-Eytan, Yonatan (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; volume133.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

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Call Number: BL639 .F67 2020

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • 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
  • Back Matter
  • Index.