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Marranos on the Moradas : secret Jews and Penitentes in the southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890 /

Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare their true identities, yet raise hostility. The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practices bloody rite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simms, Norman Toby
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Colección:Judaism and Jewish life.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What did the Penitentes really do?
  • Marranos, Penitentes, and the baroque anamorphoses in action
  • The machinery of secrets and the machinations of silence : conspiracies, contraptions and ludibria
  • Crosscurrents and undercurrents
  • Penitentes and the crazy things they do, or, How to be Jewish and Christian at the same time
  • Festivals of blood here and bloody trials there : playing roles and rolling along
  • Reaching towards a conclusion and some new questions.