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Title: | 'Secret Synagogues': Fact and Fantasy from Portugal to Macau | Contributor(s): | Soyer, Francois (author) | Publication Date: | 2018-12-15 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26607 | Abstract: | Ideas and fantasies about Jews and Judaism have constituted an integral part of the cultural matrix though which Christians in the Western World have fashioned their understanding of the world. This article examines the claims made by the Jesuit Francisco de Meneses and inquisitor Rui Sodrinho de Mesquita concerning the existence of a large community of Judaizing conversos established in Macau and seeking to operate a secret synagogue. When analyzed against the well established trend amongst early modern Spanish and Portuguese writers to vastly exaggerate the size of converso communities and the extent of judaizing, a necessary note of caution must arise in the way that such claims about Judaizing conversos are treated by historians. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, v.19, p. 47-66 | Publisher: | Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras | Place of Publication: | Portugal | ISSN: | 1645-1910 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) 220209 History of Ideas 220404 Jewish Studies |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430308 European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) 500207 History of ideas 500404 Jewish studies |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://cadernos.catedra-alberto-benveniste.org/ |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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