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Author Cook, Karoline P., 1979- author.

Title Forbidden passages : Muslims and Moriscos in colonial Spanish America / Karoline P. Cook
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Early modern Americas
Early modern Americas.
Contents Who were the Moriscos? Introducing a translantic story -- Into the Atlantic: justifying title and establishing dominion -- Forbidden crossing: emigration legislation and Morisco responses -- "These hidden heretics": the politics of Morisco religiosity -- Healers and diviners: Morisco practitioners in the New World -- "Polvos del Gran Turco": Moriscos and magical practice in Spanish America -- Honor, lineage, Ovandina: the dynamics of accusations and religious intolerance -- Images Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America
Summary "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. In doing so, they hoped to instill religious orthodoxy in the colonies and believed Muslim converts, or Moriscos, would hamper efforts to convert Indigenous people to Catholicism. Nevertheless, Moriscos secretly made the treacherous journey across the ocean, settling in the forbidden territories and influencing the nature of Spanish colonialism. Once landed, Morisco men and women struggled to define and practice their religion or pursue their trades, all while experiencing increasing anxiety about their place in the emerging Spanish empire. Many Moriscos were accused by authorities of descending from Muslims or practicing Islam in secret and turned to the courts to assert their legitimacy. Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos in the early modern Americas. Through close examination of sources that few historians have used--some one hundred cases of individuals brought before the secular, ecclesiastical, and inquisitorial courts--Karoline P. Cook shows how legislation and attitudes toward Moriscos in Spain assumed new forms and meanings in colonial Spanish America. Moriscos became not simply individuals struggling to join a community that was increasingly hostile to them but also symbols that sparked authorities' fears about maintaining religious purity in the face of territorial expansion. Cook reveals how Morisco emigrants shined a light on the complicated question of what it meant to be Spanish in the New World."--Publisher's description
Analysis American History
American Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Muslims -- Latin America -- History -- 16th century
Muslims -- Latin America -- History -- 17th century
Moriscos -- Latin America -- History -- 16th century
Moriscos -- Latin America -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Emigration and immigration
Moriscos
Muslims
SUBJECT Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 16th century
Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century
Subject Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812292901
9780812292909