All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

by Stuart B. Schwartz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300158548
• ISBN13: 9780300158540
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"