Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean - Early Modern Conversion, Mission, and the Construction of Identity

Recounts a Jewish-born Catholic priest's effort to prove he was Catholic to anyone who doubted him, including himself.

List of contents

1. Becoming a Jewish Jesuit: Eliano's early years; 2. Jesuit missionary or Jewish renegade? Eliano's confrontation with his Jewish past; 3. Jesuit anti-Judaism and the fear of Eliano's Jewishness on the first mission to the Maronites of Lebanon; 4. Textual transmission, pastoral ministry, and the re-fashioning of Eliano's intellectual training; 5. Revisiting Eliano's Jewishness on his return to Egypt; 6. The Coptic mission, Mediterranean geopolitics, and the mediation of Eliano's Jewish and Catholic identities; 7. Eliano's reconciliation with his Jewishness in his later years.

About the author

Robert John Clines is a scholar of the history and culture of the early modern Mediterranean world. A recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, he has also held fellowships from the US-Italy Fulbright Commission, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the University of Cambridge.

Summary

This exploration of a Jewish-born Catholic missionary in the Ottoman Empire is ideal for students, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the experiences of converts in the early modern Mediterranean and beyond, and the larger implications of conversion for the identities of individuals and societies.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Clines, Robert John Clines
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781108485340
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48534-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Europe, Ottoman Empire, RELIGION / History, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology