Global reformations : transforming early modern religions societies and cultures Global Reformations offers a sustained comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world. Exploring the convergence of religious reform global expansion and governmental consolidation it asks how a global frame complicates our understanding of what the Reformation itself was and offers a unique and up to date examination of the Reformation. Demonstrating new research and innovative approaches in the study of cross cultural contact during the early modern period this volume is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduates of Early Modern History Religious History Women & Gender Studies and Global History Global reformations: reframing early modern Christianity Nicholas Terpstra Religious expansion in Islam Catholicism and Buddhism Luke Clossey Translating Christian martyrdom in Buddhist Japan in the early modern Jesuit mission Haruko Nawata Ward Gypsies in Counter reformation Rome Giorgio Caravale Turning Turke the Anabaptist way: Muslims Jews Christian spiritualists and polemical discourse in the Dutch republic c. 1570 to c. 1630 Gary K. Waite Before the ghetto: spatial logics Jewish experience and Jewish Christian relations in early modern Florence Justine Walden To be a foreigner in early modern Italy. Were there ghettos for non Catholic Christians Stefano Villani Maintaining colonial order: institutional enclosure in Spanish Manila 1590 1790 Allison Graham The Renaissance papacy and Catholicization of the Manichean heretics : rethinking the 1459 purge of the Bosnian kingdom Luka Spoljaric Creole conquests: reformation representation and return in early colonial New Spain Lindsay Sidders An embattled Catholic archbishop between Latins and Greeks in the Ottoman Aegean Andrew P. McCormick Reforming birth in early colonial Mexico or did Mexican women really have a Counter Reformation Jacqueline Holler The Venetian Jewish household as a multi religious community in early modern Italy Federica Francesconi Exile identity and the Pietist reform movement: constructing the Georgia Salzburgers from Alpine Crypto Protestants Christine Marie Koch.