Fearing the “Turk” and Feeling the Spirit: Emotion and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean

The early modern period was an age of expansive religious refashioning and upheaval. In the Mediterranean this was the golden age of the renegade, as converts, particularly from Christianity to Islam, were termed. While fear was almost universally evoked in these cases, there is ample evidence of wi...

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Main Author: Dursteler, Eric R. 1964- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Journal of religious history
Year: 2015, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 484-505
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