Global Reformations Sourcebook: Convergence, Conversion, and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters – Nicholas Terpstra (Ed.)
Editor: Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 298 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Cultural Studies, Non-Fiction / Politics & Political Science, Non-Fiction / Religious Studies
Topic: Capitalism, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Community, Conflict & Post-Conflict, Culture & Society, Faith, Global System, Identity, Politics & Power, Religious Conversion
This volume of primary sources brings together letters, memoirs, petitions, tracts, and stories related to religion and reform around the globe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
The common subject of the sources is the Reformation, and these texts demonstrate the themes and impacts of religious reform in Europe and around the globe. Scholars once framed the Reformation as a sixteenth-century European dispute between Protestant and Catholic churches and states, but now look expansively at connections and entanglements between different confessions, faiths, time periods, and geographical areas. The Reformation coincided with Europeans’ expanding reach across the globe as traders, settlers, and colonists, but the role that religion played in this drive has yet to be fully explored. These readings highlight these reformers’ engagements with Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and indigenous spirituality, and the entanglement of Christian reform with colonialism, trade, enslavement, and racism.
Offering a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world, this collection of primary sources is invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students working on theology, the Reformation, and early modern society.
Table of Contents
List of fgures
Acknowledgements
PART 1
How to use this sourcebook
Reform, Reformation, and Global Reformations
How this reader came about
Suggestions for further reading
PART 2
Sources
1 Joining the Church: translating rituals of initiation
1.1 The clarity and certainty of the Word of God (1522)
1.2 Debating the key rituals of Christian faith: Luther on the sacraments (1520)
1.3 The debate over when and how to enter the community of the Church: as infants or as adults (1525)
1.4 Baptism and marriage: Catholic sacraments in a Japanese Kirishitan catechism (1591)
1.5 Baptism and preparation for death in a Japanese Kirishitan Catechism (1593)
1.6 Curbing baptisms of the enslaved in Africa (1627)
1.7 Protecting body and soul: persuading Indigenous people of the power of baptism (1632–3)
2 Purifying the community: purging the alien
2.1 Expelling Jews from Spain: the Alhambra Decree (1492)
2.2 An Italian Jew describes the expulsion from Spain (1495)
2.3 A Portuguese Jew describes the expulsion from Portugal (n.d.)
2.4 The 1506 massacre of the New Christians in Lisbon: a Catholic bishop’s account (1581)
2.5 Making a martyr: the 1572 St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1609)
2.6 The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609)
2.7 Ming offcials push for the expulsion of Christian missionaries (1616–18)
3 Evaluating others: cross-cultural assessments
3.1 Can Christians, Jews, and Muslims learn anything from each other? (1560)
3.2 A convert reconsiders: a Japanese Buddhist’s critique of Christianity (1620
3.3 A rabbi compares Christianity and Judaism (1641)
3.4 Ming and Qing scholars respond to Christian missions (1601, 1739)
3.5 Wendat encounters with Christianity (1632)
3.6 The Wendat evaluate Christianity: a nun and a priest give differing accounts of a Wendat assembly (1640)
4 The politics of conversion – early and late ‘Reformation’
4.1 Portfolio: Reformation and regime change: Catholicizing the Bosnian kingdom (1459–63)
4.2 Portfolio: conversion and colonization: Reformation on the margins (1730s–40s)
5 Living together: co-existence, conversion, convergence
5.1 The spaces of religion and race in Kongo (1591)
5.2 The unlikely friendship of a Muslim and an Iberian friar (1533)
5.3 A criollo bishop reviews religious life in a Mexican city (1614)
5.4 Catholic, Protestant, and Jew: the many lives of Manuel Cardoso de Macedo (1620s)
5.5 Indigenous teachers in early Indigenous missions – the experience in New Spain (1664)
5.6 Toleration, coexistence, and reform: Dutch radicals argue against forced conversion and for freedom of religious expression (1539; 1609)
5.7 An English radical advocates for the return of Jews to England – on condition (1621)
5.8 Can an Indigenous woman become a nun? (1723)
6 Ordering faith, ordering society
6.1 Creating new communities of believers (1527)
6.2 Manifesto for a radically Christian community (1534)
6.3 State and church: a Catholic view (1530)
6.4 State and church: a Protestant view (1559)
6.5 Building the Kongo church with – and in spite of – Christian traders and missionaries (1526; 1539)
6.6 A Japanese emperor’s views on religion, rural order, and commerce (1587)
6.7 The limits of toleration for Protestants in Italy (1561)
6.8 Centralizing saint-making in a globalizing Catholic church (1601)
6.9 A Dutch radical proposes religious coexistence and toleration (1620s)
6.10 A rabbi compares diasporic experiences (1627)
6.11 Investigating a miracle in the Italian countryside (1674)
7 Performing the faith: the art of religious identity and difference
7.1 Singing the word: songs of faith and belonging (1560; 1635)
7.2 Singing the catechism: songs of instruction (1529; 1854)
7.3 Singing the colonial relation: from ‘Jesous Ahatonnia’ to ‘The Huron Carol’ (1642–43; 1899; 1927)
7.4 A Jewish life of Christ – the Toledot Yeshu
7.5 Miracle tales for a global gospel: Black and Indigenous believers in God’s family (1627)
7.6 Religious plays for Nahuatl audiences
7.7 Why do bad things happen to good people? Staging a Christian and Indigenous encounter (1740)
7.8 The kitchen of opinions: peace urges the churches to tolerate each other
8 Exploiting faith: conversion, capitalism, colonialism
8.1 The destruction of the Indies: colonial patterns of merging religion and development (1555)
8.2 Indigenous responses to the arrival of the Spanish in Cuba (1555)
8.3 English colonialism and the Black Legend of Spain (1656)
8.4 Seeking gender parity in Río de la Plata region (1556)
8.5 Navigating religious, racial, and political divisions in the Yucatán peninsula (1567)
8.6 Baptism as a tool in European enslavement of Africans (1627)
8.7 Work and religion in the colonial setting: Dutch Amboina (1692)
9 Going underground – negotiating difference
9.1 The legal status of Muslims and Jews in medieval Castile – the Siete Partidas (1252–65)
9.2 Living as a Muslim in Spain (1462)
9.3 Negotiating Muslim life under Christian rule in Iberia: after the fall of Granada (1491)
9.4 Iberian Muslims appeal to the Ottoman Sultan for relief (c. 1502)
9.5 Practicing Islam as a Catholic: the Oran Fatwa (1504)
9.6 The alien advantage: German Protestants worshipping in Catholic Venice (c. 1580)
9.7 Protesting the prohibition of Christianity in Japan (1614)
9.8 Saving an illegitimate Jewish baby from Christian authorities (1691)
10 Living the traditions: the religious politics of daily life
10.1 In questions of faith, you are what you wear: Algerian women’s fashion (1612)
10.2 Assimilating Roma in early modern Italy (1583; 1631)
10.3 A Morisco under suspicion in Valencia (1556–67)
10.4 The Inquisition investigates a Morisca bride in sixteenth-century Spain (1575) 10.5 Marking time – a Jewish calendar (5354 or 1593/94 CE)
10.6 Ten commandments for the Jewish wife (before 1620)
10.7 Of powders and pregnancy: the Mexican Inquisition takes on a midwife (1652)
10.8 Separating sheep and goats in the early modern Aegean (1757)
11 Finding self and others
11.1 Reforming an unruly priest in New Spain (1545–9)
11.2 Investigating an unusual ‘convent’ (1687–8)
11.3 A Jewish servant and her ghetto network (1664)
11.4 An abbess and convent in exile (1642)
11.5 Spiritual friendships and alliances: a queen and English convents in exile (1687–8)
11.6 Irish nuns in exile and in poverty (1740)
11.7 The devil in the body of a man: a nun’s
temptations (1723)
11.8 Scandal in the enclosure: a Manila woman seeks another life (1754)
Index
Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of politics, religion, gender, and charity, with a focus on issues dealing with poverty, institutional structures of charity, and urban space & the senses in Renaissance Italy. Recent books include Lost Girls: Sex & Death in Renaissance Florence (2010), Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (2013), Religious Refugees of the Early Modern World (2015), and Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence (2016). He has held visiting professor positions at various universities and at Villa I Tatti. From 2012-17, he was Editor of Renaissance Quarterly.
Source: https://itatti.harvard.edu/people/nicholas-terpstra
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