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Title: | Blood and spirit: Paternity, fraternity and religious self-fashioning in Luis de Carvajal’s spiritual autobiography |
Authors: | Perelis, Ronnie |
Keywords: | crypto-Judaism Conversos Luis de Carvajal paternity brotherhood the New World |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Citation: | Blood and spirit: Paternity, fraternity and religious self-fashioning in Luis de Carvajal’s spiritual autobiography |
Series/Report no.: | Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina Caribe - EIAL.;23(1) |
Abstract: | The subterranean networks of New World crypto-Judaism rarely thrived in isolation. Rather, as Jonathan I. Israel, Yosef Kaplan, and others have shown, these secret Jewish communities were connected to a global network of fellow Conversos and openly professing Jews living throughout Europe and the Americas.2 These disparate groups were connected through a complex web of familial, economic, and family ties. Commercial links were solidified by marriage; therefore, business and family were inseparable. Real-world family connections made of “blood and treasure” were intertwined with a longing for family in metaphorical and spiritual terms. Beyond the bonds of flesh and blood, individual crypto-Jews found paternity and brotherhood with like-minded religious searchers for a family of spirit inseparably connected with their family of flesh and blood. This paper explores the dialectical relationship between the socio-economic iteration of family and its more spiritual, metaphorical expression within the context of New World crypto-Judaism. (from Introduction) |
Description: | Scholarly article / Open access |
URI: | Perelis, R. (2012). https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/10080 |
ISSN: | 00031615; 15336247 |
Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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