Marranos on the Moradas : secret Jews and Penitentes in the southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890 /
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| Author / Creator: | Simms, Norman Toby. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009. |
| Description: | vii, 509 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Judaism and Jewish life |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7643672 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Theoretical Problem of the Penitentes
- The Problem Slowly Expands
- Outline of this Book
- More Theoretical and Methodological Problems
- Incidentalism
- A New Approach
- New Distinctions: Marranos, Crypto-Jews and Pseudo-Jews
- New Contexts
- The Artistic/Aesthetic View
- The Rhetorical/Dramatic View
- The Psychological View/Psychohistory
- Post-Post-Modernism: Microhistory
- Post-Colonialism
- Feminist and Gay Studies
- Chapter I. What Did The Penitentes Really Do? Medieval Flagellants
- Third Order of Franciscans
- Aztec, Mexican, Pueblo, Shamanistic Rites and Secret Societies among Native Americans
- A Further Speculation: or, A Shot in the Dark
- Ghosts, Demons and Marranos
- Marranism as a Way of Doubt
- Four New Questions
- Chapter II. Marranos, Penitentes, And The Baroque Anamorphoses In Action
- The Fourth Influence: Marranos and Crypto-Jews
- Marrano Testimonies
- A New Overview of Penitentes and Marranos in the New World
- The Problem of Marrano Tradition and Experience
- Simulation and Dissimulation in Europe during the Period of the Baroque
- Chapter III. The Machinery Of Secrets And The Machinations Of Silence: Conspiracies, Contraptions And Ludibria
- Spaceless Space and Timeless Time
- New Models of Behavior and Social Deception
- Familiares, Malsines and Polillios
- The Alternative Counter-Contraptions of the Ramban, a new Kabbalah and the so-called Grandees of French Jewry
- Una Fiesta de Sangre
- Confusion and Discombobulation
- Passion's Ludibrium Midrashed
- Machines, Apparatus and Contraptions: Instruction, Construction and Destruction
- Ludibrium: a machine to see and feel insults
- Bricolage, Jonglerie and other Gadgets
- Tikkun ha-olam, ha-nefesh, ha-goof, ha-shem
- The Contraption that Failed
- Chapter IV. Rosscurrents And Undercurrents
- Section 1. The Half-Way Markers
- Penitentes, Thaipusam, and the Fillipino Crucifiers: Ecstasy, Agony and Their Social and Psychological Significance as Festivals of Blood and Pain
- Thaipusam
- Filipino Flagellants and Self-Crucifiers
- Penitentes of the Southwestern United States
- Enargeia versus energeia
- Religions of the Father and of the Son
- The Argument thus Far
- Section 2. A Survey of Fuzzy Jews in Colonial America
- Concealing, Preserving and Reshaping
- Wachtel's Sensitive Study of Souvenirs
- Zeugma and the Marrano Complex
- Crypto-Jews and Marranos in Portuguese America
- From Toleration to Expulsion in the French Zones
- Jews in Dutch America
- "Brokers of the World" in a Broken and Baroque World
- Chapter V. Penitentes And The Crazy Things They Do: Or, How To Be Jewish And Christian At The Same Time
- Two Ways of Being Jewish in a Non-Jewish World
- Rambam vs Ramban: Who Won the Debates?
- The Apparent and the Concealed
- The Sacred and the Secret
- What Happened to Yemen
- The Metamorphosis of Old Sepharad
- A Heritage of Guilt
- The Mean Son's Question
- Chapter VI. Festivals Of Blood Here And Bloody Trials There: Playing Roles And Rolling Along
- A Rhetoric of Blood
- Multiple Personalities, Careers and Strategies of Dissimulation
- Penitence and Piety
- Making History out of Midrash
- Historicity, Hysteria and Histrionics
- Dormant Memories and Midrashim
- Chapter VII. Reaching Towards A Conclusion And Some New Questions
- In Search of the Bizarre and the Uncanny
- The World Beneath the Surface of the World
- Delusion, Child's Play, or Enargeia
- Troubled Children of the New World
- Delusions in the New World
- Children's Games and Delusions
- Children among the Marranos: A Psychohistorical Problem
- Incomplete Mourning and Unresolved Grief: Marranos and Crypto-Jews in Exile on the Moradas
- The Clinical Problem
- New Synthetic Approach Needed
- Components of the New Approach
- The Midrashing Machine
- Chapter VIII. Epilogue
- Meditations and Speculations
- Midrash or Mishmosh? Habits of Mind
- Paradigms for Jews in a Non-Jewish World
- Midrashing the Midrash
- Mythos
- Bibliography
- Index
