Ebook: Parables of coercion: conversion and knowledge at the end of Islamic Spain
Author: Catholic Church, Catholic Church., Kimmel Seth
- Tags: Cultural, Spain
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- City: Spain
- Language: English
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however,Parables of Coercionfocuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but rather on how questions surrounding conversion drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.
In its careful examination of how Spanish authors transformed the history of scholarship through debate about forced religious conversion,Parables of Coercionmakes us rethink what we mean by tolerance and intolerance, and shows that debates about forced conversion and assimilation were also disputes over the methods and practices that demarcated one scholarly discipline from another.
In its careful examination of how Spanish authors transformed the history of scholarship through debate about forced religious conversion,Parables of Coercionmakes us rethink what we mean by tolerance and intolerance, and shows that debates about forced conversion and assimilation were also disputes over the methods and practices that demarcated one scholarly discipline from another.
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