| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Iberian doubts. Propositions -- Conversos and moriscos -- Christian tolerance -- Portugal : old Christians and new Christians -- American liberties. American propositions : body and soul in the Indies -- American adjustments -- Brazil : salvation in a slave society -- Toward toleration. From tolerance to toleration in the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic world -- Rustic pelagians |
| Summary |
It would seem unlikelythat one coulddiscover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly that. Drawing on an enormous body of historical evidence-including records of the Inquisition itself-the historian Stuart Schwartz investigates the idea of religious tolerance and its evolution in the Hispanic world from 1500 to 1820. Focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of common people rather than those of intellectual elites, the author finds that no small segment of the population believed in freedom of conscience and rejected the exclusive validity of the Church. The book explores various sources of tolerant attitudes, the challenges that the New World presented to religious orthodoxy, the complex relations between "popular" and "learned" culture, and many related topics. The volume concludes with a discussion of the relativist ideas that were taking hold elsewhere in Europe during this era |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index |
| Notes |
American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Award, 2009 |
|
American Historical Association John E. Fagg Prize, 2009 |
|
American Historical Association George L. Mosse Prize, 2009 |
|
Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, 2008 |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religious tolerance -- Spain
|
|
Religious tolerance -- Portugal
|
|
Religious tolerance -- Colonies -- Spain
|
|
Religious tolerance -- Colonies -- Portugal
|
|
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
|
|
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
|
|
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
|
|
Religious tolerance
|
| SUBJECT |
Spain -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126033
|
|
Portugal -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105227
|
| Subject |
Portugal
|
|
Spain
|
| Genre/Form |
Church history
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2007045562 |
| ISBN |
9780300150537 |
|
0300150539 |
|
