Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam : Coercion and Faith in Premodern Iberia and Beyond (Numen Book Series)

García-Arenal, Mercedes (EDT)/ Glazer-Eytan, Yonatan (EDT)

Brill（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 418 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004416819
• DDC分類 204.2

Full Description

Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula but examining related European and Mediterranean contexts as well, Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam traces how Christians, Jews, and Muslims grappled with the contradictory phenomenon of faith brought about by constraint and compulsion. Forced conversion brought into sharp relief the tensions among the accepted notion of faith as a voluntary act, the desire to maintain "pure" communities, and the universal truth claims of radical monotheism. Offering a comparative view of an important yet insufficiently studied phenomenon in the history of religions, this collection of essays explores the ways in which religion and violence reshaped these three religions and the ways we understand them today.

Contents

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Forced Conversion and the Reshaping of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Tradition, Interpretation, History

 Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

Part 1: Visigoth Legislation on Forced Conversion and Its Afterlife

 1 Uses and Echoes of Visigothic Conciliar Legislation in the Scholastic Controversy on Forced Baptism (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries)

 Elsa Marmursztejn

 2 "Qui ex Iudeis sunt": Visigothic Law and the Discrimination against Conversos in Late Medieval Spain

 Rosa Vidal Doval

 3 Theorizing Coercion and Consent in Conversion, Apostasy, Ordination, and Marriage (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)

 Isabelle Poutrin

Part 2: Eschatology, Radical Universalism, and Remembrance: Forced Conversion during the Almohad Rule

 4 Again on Forced Conversion in the Almohad Period

 Maribel Fierro

 5 The Intellectual Genealogy of Almohad Policy towards Christians and Jews

 David J. Wasserstein

 6 Medieval Jewish Perspectives on Almohad Persecutions: Memory, Repression and Impact

 Alan Verskin

Part 3

Rethinking Will: The Forced Conversion of Jews
in 1391 and Beyond

 7 On the Road to 1391? Abner of Burgos / Alfonso of Valladolid on Forced Conversion

 Ryan Szpiech

 8 The Development of a New Language of Conversion in Fifteenth-Century Sephardic Jewry

 Ram Ben-Shalom

 9 Incriminating the Judaizer: Inquisitors, Intentionality, and the Problem of Religious Ambiguity after Forced Conversion

 Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

 10 The Coerced Conversion of Convicted Jewish Criminals in Fifteenth-Century Italy

 Tamar Herzig

Part 4: Between Theology and History

 11 "Neither through Habits, nor Solely through Will, but through Infused Faith": Hernando de Talavera's Understanding of Conversion

 Davide Scotto

 12 Remembering the Forced Baptism of Jews: Law, Theology, and History in Sixteenth-Century Portugal

 Giuseppe Marcocci

 13 Theologies of Baptism and Forced Conversion: The Case of the Muslims of Valencia and Their Children

 Mercedes García-Arenal

 14 Epilogue: Conversion and the Force of History

 David Nirenberg

Index