Leiden: Brill, Date: 2020. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. xiv, 418pp. Index. Pictorial buckram, lavender spine lettered in white & black. A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block. 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. (Publisher) Contents: Introduction: Forced conversion and the reshaping of Judaism, Christianity and Islam : tradition, interpretation, history / Mercedes García-Arenal, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan -- Uses and echoes of Visigothic conciliar legislation in the scholastic controversy on forced baptism (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) / Elsa Marmursztejn -- "Qui ex iudeis sunt": Visigothic law and the discrimination against conversos in late medieval Spain / Rosa ...

ISBN10: 9004416811, ISBN13: 9789004416819, [publisher: Brill, Leiden] Hardcover First Edition Octavo. xiv, 418pp. Index. Pictorial buckram, lavender spine lettered in white & black. A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block. 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. (Publisher) Contents: Introduction: Forced conversion and the reshaping of Judaism, Christianity and Islam : tradition, interpretation, history / Mercedes García-Arenal, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan -- Uses and echoes of Visigothic conciliar legislation in the scholastic controversy on forced baptism (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) / Elsa Marmursztejn -- "Qui ex iudeis sunt": Visigothic law and the ...