Swimming the Christian Atlantic (2 Vols)

Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17040-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 566 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1265 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these differing trajectories into dialogue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schorsch, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I
1. Identity and Otherness in the Atlantic World
2. The Free and Not so Free, the Christian and the Not so Christian
3. Some Incidents in Cartagena de las Indias
4. Masters and Slaves under the Stare of the Cross
5. Slaves and the Downtrodden Religion of Their Masters
6. Jailed Judaizers and Their Jailers’ Servants
7. Esperanza Rodriguez: A Mulata Marrana in Mexico City

PART II
8. The Racial Imagination in the Writings of (Ex-)Conversos
9. (Re)Reading the Old/New World in the 1640s: The Relación of Antonio de Montezinos

Postscript

Appendix: An Unpublished Letter of Antonio de Montezinos
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Schorsch, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of California-Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia University. Specializing in Sephardic history and culture, his previous book was Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge, 2004).