Global Reformations Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures

Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration 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 history, women's & gender studies, and global history.

1 Introduction: global reformations: reframing

early modern Christianity

Nicholas Terpstra

2 Religious expansion in Islam, Catholicism,

and Buddhism

Luke Clossey

Part 1

Conversion, co-existence, and identity

3 Translating Christian martyrdom in Buddhist

Japan in the early modern Jesuit mission

Haru ko Nawata Ward

4 Gypsies in counter-reformation Rome

Giorgio Caravale

5 “Turning Turke” the Anabaptist way: Muslims, Jews,

Christian Spiritualists, and polemical discourse in the

Dutch Republic, c. 1570–c. 1630

Gary K. Waite

Part 2

Spatial and social disciplines

6 Before the Ghetto: spatial logics, ritual

humiliation, and Jewish-Christian relations in

early modern Florence

Justine Walden

7 T o be a foreigner in early modern Italy. Were there

ghettos for non-Catholic Christians?

Stefano V illani

8 Maintaining colonial order: institutional enclosure

in Spanish Manila, 1590–1790

Allison Gr aham

Part 3

Cultural and religious politics

9 T he Renaissance papacy and Catholicization of

the “Manichean Heretics”: rethinking the 1459

purge of the Bosnian kingdom

Luk a Špoljarić

10 Creole conquests: reformation, representation,

and return in early colonial New Spain

Lindsay C. Sidders

11 An Embattled Catholic Archbishop Between Latins

and Greeks in the Ottoman Aegean

Andrew P. McCormick

Part 4

Life across boundaries

12 R eforming birth in early colonial Mexico, or, did

Mexican women really have a counter-reformation?

Jacqueline Holler

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13 The Venetian Jewish household as a multireligious

community in early modern Italy

Federica Francesconi

14 Exile identity and the Pietist reform movement:

constructing the Georgia Salzburgers from Alpine

Crypto-Protestants

Christine Marie Koch

Index

Nicholas Terpstrateaches 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 Interpretation of the Reformation (2016) and Faith’s Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities (2013).