Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule

Preface Introduction Locating the Self, Negotiating the Other: Conversion and Imperial Rule in the Early Modern Period Ricarda Vulpius and Guillermo Wilde Section I: Knowledge, Texts, and Translation Conversion, Evangelization and Indigenous Agency in Colonial Mexico (16th Century). The Florentine Codex as a Space of Negotiation Andrea Maria D'Amato Opening the Doors to Conversion: The Reformed Mission and Antiquarianism in the Open Door to Hidden Paganism Benjamin Leathley Section II: Hybridity and Indigenous Appropriation Evangelization Struggle on the Margins of the French Empire: Conversion in the Illinois Country in the 18th Century Thomas Croisez Adaptation and Ambiguity: Indigenous Engagement with Catholic Devotions in the Jesuit Missions of Spanish Amazonia (1638-1768) Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho Imperial Catholicism and Indigenous Cosmologies. An Approach to Religious Conversion on the Frontiers of Colonial Latin America Guillermo Wilde Section III: Imperial Control and Coercion Baptism and Bureaucracy: Religious Conversion of the Yakut under 17th- Century Russian Rule Angelina Kalashnikova Conversion by Deception: The Case of the Uniates inside the Russian Empire Barbara Skinner Conversion as a win-win-situation? Russian Imperial Policies and Kalmyk Strategies of Adaptation in the 18th Century Ricarda Vulpius Section IV: Confessional Politics and Individual Agency Negotiating Faith: Jewish Conversions, Imperial Policies, and Confessional Choices in Russia Victoria Gerasimova Armenians, Empire, and the Politics of Conversion in 19th Century Russia Paul W. Werth Contributors