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Conversion in the age of pluralism
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ISSN: 10615210 ISBN: 1282601709 9786612601705 9047444949 9789047444947 9789004178038 9004178031 9781282601703 6612601701 Year: 2009 Volume: 17 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the framework linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests--everything is open to potential debate when an individual 'converts.' Conversion is especially developed here through a connection with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic of our era: what does it mean to speak of 'conversion' in a time in which it seems that the presumption of only one 'true' truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live together, each with its own judgment criteria.


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Swimming the Christian Atlantic
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ISBN: 1282603043 9786612603044 9047442458 9789047442455 9789004170407 9004170405 9789004172524 9004172521 9789004172531 900417253X Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these differing trajectories into dialogue.

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