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

ISBN-13: 9781108485340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 276 str.

Robert Clines

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… Clines tells a remarkable story based on original sources, chiefly Eliano's letters.' P. Grendler, Choice

Spis treści

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.