Space and Conversion in Global Perspective

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Space, Conversion, and Global History

GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI, WIETSE DE BOER, ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY, ILARIA PAVAN

PART ONE: CITY AND COUNTRY
Granada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a City
MERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL
Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European Context
ADRIANO PROSPERI
The Incas of Cuzco and the Transformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial Rule
GABRIELA RAMOS
The Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian Villages
FELICITA TRAMONTANA
Christian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
AGNIESZKA JAGODZIŃSKA

PART TWO: SEGREGATION AND PERMEABILITY
The Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon
SUSANA BASTOS MATEUS
The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century
IRENE FOSI
The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
GUILLERMO WILDE
The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy
PAOLO ARANHA

PART THREE: DISTANCE AND MOBILITY
Saltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian World
GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI
Giving for the Mission: The encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century Andes
ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY
Telling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim Jesuit
EMANUELE COLOMBO AND ROCCO SACCONAGHI
Confessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century)
OXANA ZEMTSOVA
 
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