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'Conversion' is a basic religious concept, which has manifold implications for our everyday lives. Ran Tene's Changes in Ethical Worldviews of Spanish Missionaries in Mexico utilizes a cross-disciplinary methodology in which the fields of Philosophy, History, and Literary Studies are drawn upon to analyze conversion. He focuses on two moments in Spanish writing about Mexican missions, the early to mid-sixteenth century writings of the Spanish missionaries to Mexico and the early seventeenth century manuscripts of the author/copyist Fray Juan de Torquemada. The analysis exposes changes in worldviews - including the concepts of identity, ownership, and cruelty - through missionary eyes. It suggests two theoretical models - the vision model and the model of touch - to describe these changes, which are manifested in the missionary project and in the texts that it (re)produced.

Christian church history --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Mexico --- 266 "15/16" --- 266 <72> --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--"15/16" --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Mexico --- Missions --- Conversion --- Psychology, Religious. --- Psychology of religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychology and religion --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- History. --- Christianity. --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Torquemada, Juan de, --- Motolinía, Toribio, --- Benavente Motolinía, Toribio de, --- Benavente, Toribio de, --- De Benavente Motolinía, Toribio, --- Paredes, Toribio de, --- Toribio de Benavente, --- Turrecremata, Joannes de, --- De Torquemada, Juan, --- De Turrecremata, Joannes, --- John, --- Johannes, --- Turre Cremata, Joannes de, --- Cremata, Joannes de Turre, --- Torquemada, John de, --- Torquemada, Johann von,