Swimming the Christian Atlantic

Swimming the Christian Atlantic
ISBN-10
9004170405
ISBN-13
9789004170407
Category
Christian converts
Pages
566
Language
English
Published
2009-06-01
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Jonathan Schorsch

Description

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.

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