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Title Space and conversion in global perspective / edited by Giuseppe Marcocci, Wietse de Boer, Aliocha Maldavsky, and Ilaria Pavan
Published Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages)
Series Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 35
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 35.
Contents 880-01 Chapter 5 Christian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyPart 2 Segregation and Permeability; Chapter 6 The Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon; Chapter 7 The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 8 The Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries); Chapter 9 The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy
880-01/(N Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Space, Conversion, and Global History; Part 1 City and Country; Chapter 1 Granada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a City; Chapter 2 Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European Context; Chapter 3 The Incas of Cuzco and the Тransformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial Rule; Chapter 4 The Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian Villages
Part 3 Distance and MobilityChapter 10 Saltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian World; Chapter 11 Giving for the Mission: The Encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century Andes; Chapter 12 Telling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim Jesuit; Chapter 13 Confessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century); Index Nominum
Summary Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines conversion in connection with spatial setting, mobility, and interiority. The approach is global and encompasses multiple religions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force of early modern globalization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Conversion.
Religion and geography.
Globalization -- Religious aspects.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Inspiration & Personal Growth.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- General.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Devotional.
RELIGION -- Spirituality.
Conversion
Globalization -- Religious aspects
Religion and geography
Missie.
Bekering.
Genre/Form Geschiedenis (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Marcocci, Giuseppe, editor.
Boer, Wietse de, editor.
Maldavsky, Aliocha, editor.
Pavan, Ilaria, 1972- editor.
ISBN 9789004280632
9004280634
1322309760
9781322309767