Global Reformations: Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures

289 Pages·2019·5.806 MB·English

by  Nicholas Terpstra

Global Reformations
Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary explo-
ration of religious transformations in the early modern world.
The volume explores global developments and tracks the many ways in which
Reformation movements shaped relations of Christians with other Christians,
and also with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and aboriginal groups in the Americas.
Contributions explore the negotiations, tensions, and contacts that developed
across social, gender, and religious lines in different parts of the globe, focusing on
how different convictions about religious reform and approaches to it shaped social
action and cross-confessional encounters. The essays explore the convergence of
religious reform, global expansion, and governmental consolidation in the early
modern world and examine the Reformation as a global phenomenon; the authors
ask how a global frame complicates our understanding of what the Reformation
itself was and offer a unique and up-to-date examination of the Reformation that
broadens readers’ understanding in creative and useful ways.
Demonstrating new research and innovative approaches in the study of
cross-cultural contact during the early modern period, this volume is ideal for
advanced undergraduates and graduates of early modern history, religious his-
tory, women’s & gender studies, and global history.
Nicholas Terpstra teaches early modern history at the University of Toronto,
Canada, working at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion.
Recent publications include Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An
Alternative History of the Reformation (2016) and Faith’s Boundaries: Laity and
Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities (2013).

Global Reformations
Transforming Early Modern Religions,
Societies, and Cultures
Edited by Nicholas Terpstra
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Title: Global reformations: transforming early modern religions, societies,
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Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2019. | Includes index. |
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Subjects: LCSH: Reformation. | Religions—History—16th century. |
Religions—History—17th century.
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Contents
List of figures viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction: global reformations: reframing
early modern Christianity 1
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA
2 Religious expansion in Islam, Catholicism,
and Buddhism 13
LUkE CLOSSEY
PaRT 1
Conversion, co-existence, and identity 31
3 Translating Christian martyrdom in Buddhist
Japan in the early modern Jesuit mission 33
HARUkO NAwATA wARD
4 Gypsies in counter-reformation Rome 52
GIORGIO CARAVALE
5 “Turning Turke” the anabaptist way: Muslims, Jews,
Christian Spiritualists, and polemical discourse in the
Dutch Republic, c. 1570–c. 1630 73
GARY k. wAITE
vi Contents
PaRT 2
Spatial and social disciplines 95
6 Before the Ghetto: spatial logics, ritual
humiliation, and Jewish-Christian relations in
early modern Florence 97
JUSTINE wALDEN
7 To be a foreigner in early modern Italy. Were there
ghettos for non-Catholic Christians? 115
STEFANO VILLANI
8 Maintaining colonial order: institutional enclosure
in Spanish Manila, 1590–1790 134
ALLISON GRAHAM
PaRT 3
Cultural and religious politics 151
9 The Renaissance papacy and Catholicization of
the “Manichean Heretics”: rethinking the 1459
purge of the Bosnian kingdom 153
LUkA ŠPOLJARIć
10 Creole conquests: reformation, representation,
and return in early colonial New Spain 176
LINDSAY C. SIDDERS
11 an Embattled Catholic archbishop between Latins
and Greeks in the Ottoman aegean 195
ANDREw P. McCORMICk
PaRT 4
Life across boundaries 211
12 Reforming birth in early colonial Mexico, or, did
Mexican women really have a counter-reformation? 213
JACqUELINE HOLLER
Contents vii
13 The Venetian Jewish household as a multireligious
community in early modern Italy 231
FEDERICA FRANCESCONI
14 Exile identity and the Pietist reform movement:
constructing the Georgia Salzburgers from alpine
Crypto-Protestants 249
CHRISTINE MARIE kOCH
Index 267
Figures
6.1 Jewish Residences in Florence, 1567 99
6.2 Jewish Cemeteries in Florence, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 100
6.3 Jewish Residences by Population Size in Florence, 1567 101
6.4 Residences of Jews and Prostitutes in Florence, 1561–1567 102
6.5 Slaughterhouses and Animal Stalls in Florence, 1561 104
6.6 Jews, Prostitutes, and Butchers in Fifteenth-Century Florence 106
9.1 The Adriatic in 1460 158
Contributors
Giorgio Caravale is a Professor of early modern European history at the
University of Roma Tre. He is co-editor of the Catholic Christendom
1300–1700 series published by Brill. He has been a fellow in the School
of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
(2013–2014), and Lauro De Bosis Lecturer in the History of the Italian
Civilization at Harvard University (2010–2011). He is the author of For-
bidden Prayer. Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance
Italy (2011); George L. Mosse’s Italy: Interpretation, Reception, and Intellec-
tual Heritage (ed. with L. B enadusi, 2014); The Italian Reformation outside
Italy: Francesco Pucci’s Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2015); Preach-
ing and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy: Words on Trial (2016); Beyond
the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-
Reformation (2017); and Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England
and Counter-Reformation Rome: Story of a Dangerous Book (2017).
Luke Clossey is an Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University,
where he teaches religion and globalization. His Salvation and Globalization
in the Early Jesuit Missions (2008) won the Canadian Historical Association’s
wallace Ferguson prize for non-Canadian history. with other officers of the
Institut für die Späte Altzeit, he contributed to the “Unbelieved and Histo-
rians” essay series in History Compass (2016–2017). He is now writing up a
study of the cult of Jesus in the early modern world, and beginning research
on the global spread of Thai Forest Buddhism.
Federica Francesconi is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of the
Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New
York. Her research and publications address the social, religious, and cultural
aspects of the early modern history of Jews in Italy, focussing on the multifac-
eted politics and dynamics of ghetto life. Her forthcoming monograph, Invis-
ible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from Renaissance to Emancipation, tells the
unknown stories of Jewish merchants and their interconnected families from
Modena who were deeply involved in their community and the vast changes of
the times over more than two centuries. Francesconi recently co-edited From
Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern