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Marranos on the Moradas
Norman Toby Simms
其他書名
Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890
出版Academic Studies Press, 2009
主題History / JewishHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)Religion / Christianity / CatholicReligion / MonasticismScience / Chemistry / OrganicSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology of ReligionSocial Science / Jewish Studies
ISBN19348433269781934843321
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CW8jAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion, but claim this is a misrepresentation and that they are a community and a charitable organization. Marranos, an ambiguous and complicated population of Sephardic descendants, claim to be anousim. Both peoples have a complex, shared history. This book disentangles the web, redefines the terms, and creates new contexts in which these groups are viewed with respect and sympathy without idealizing or slandering them. Simms uses rabbinics, literary analyses, psychohistory, and cultural anthropology to consolidate a history of mentalities.