Ελληνική Επιστημονική Εταιρεία Σπουδών Μέσης Ανατολής: Forced Conversion

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Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (éd),”Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Coercion and Faith in Premodern Iberia and Beyond”, Brill, nov 2019.

PAR HASSAN BOUALI · PUBLIÉ 20/11/2019 · MIS À JOUR 20/11/2019

Numen Book Series, Volume: 164

Editors: Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

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.

Table of Contents

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

By: Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

Pages: 1–31

Uses and Echoes of Visigothic Conciliar Legislation in the Scholastic Controversy on Forced Baptism (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)

By: Elsa Marmursztejn

Pages: 33–59

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

By: Rosa Vidal Doval

Pages: 60–85

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

By: Isabelle Poutrin