1st Edition

Global Reformations Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures

Edited By Nicholas Terpstra Copyright 2019
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world. The volume explores global developments and tracks the many ways in which Reformation movements shaped relations of Christians with other Christians, and also with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and aboriginal groups in the Americas. Contributions explore... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Global Reformations: Reframing Early Modern Christianity

Nicholas Terpstra

2 Religious Expansion in Islam, Catholicism, and Buddhism

Luke Clossey

Conversion, Co-Existence, & Identity

3 Translating Christian Martyrdom in Buddhist Japan in the Early Modern Jesuit Mission

Haruko Nawata Ward

4 Gypsies in Counter-Reformation Rome

Giorgio Caravale

5 "Turning Turke" the Anabaptist Way: Muslims, Jews, Christian Spiritualists, and Polemical Discourse in the Dutch Republic, c. 1570 to c. 1630

Gary K. Waite

Spatial & Social Disciplines

6 Before the Ghetto: Spatial Logics, Jewish Experience, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Early Modern Florence

Justine Walden

7 To Be a Foreigner in Early Modern Italy. Were there ghettos for non-Catholic Christians?

Stefano Villani

8 Maintaining Colonial Order: Institutional Enclosure in Spanish Manila, 1590-1790

Allison Graham

Cultural & Religious Politics

9 The Renaissance Papacy and Catholicization of the ‘Manichean Heretics’: Rethinking the 1459 Purge of the Bosnian Kingdom

Luka Spoljaric

10 Creole Conquests: Reformation, Representation, and Return in Early Colonial New Spain

Lindsay Sidders

11 An Embattled Catholic Archbishop between Latins and Greeks in the Ottoman Aegean

Andrew P. McCormick

Life Across Boundaries

12 Reforming Birth in Early Colonial Mexico, or, Did Mexican Women Really Have a Counter-Reformation

Jacqueline Holler

13 The Venetian Jewish Household as a Multi-Religious Community in Early Modern Italy

Federica Francesconi

14 Exile Identity and the Pietist Reform Movement: Constructing the Georgia Salzburgers from Alpine Crypto Protestants

Christine Marie Koch

Index

Biography

Nicholas Terpstra teaches early modern history at the University of Toronto, Canada, working at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion. Recent publications include Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative Interpretation of the Reformation (2016) and Faith’s Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities (2013).

"Abandoning the eurocentric perspective, the Reformation should be examined as a global and pluralistic phenomenon, in order to see the plastic relations with other faiths.  With this goal, Nicholas Terpstra has engaged scholars of different fields and backgrounds, guaranteeing a full and global view and proposing new hypotheses that co-exist with and deepen traditional interpretations.  . . . . .the standing and authority of these scholars has not prevented them from entering fully into the discussion, bringing original research and moving to new interpretations. The studies are very interesting, proposing analyses of new or little explored sources, with a significant expansion of the research horizons." Michaela Valente, Nuova Rivista Storica