It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious
attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the
era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was
widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly
that. Drawing on an enormous body of historical evidence--including
records of the Inquisition itself--the historian Stuart Schwartz
investigates the idea of religious tolerance and its evolution in
the Hispanic world from 1500 to 1820. Focusing on the attitudes and
beliefs of common people rather than those of intellectual elites,
the author finds that no small segment of the population believed
in freedom of conscience and rejected the exclusive validity of the
Church. The book explores various sources of tolerant attitudes,
the challenges that the New World presented to religious orthodoxy,
the complex relations between "popular" and "learned" culture, and
many related topics. The volume concludes with a discussion of the
relativist ideas that were taking hold elsewhere in Europe during
this era.
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