by Stuart B. Schwartz
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."All Can Be Saved is the work of a master historian who does not just pay lip service to the importance of the Portuguese in the Iberian Atlantic and who is deeply sensitive to early modern theology and ethnography. This book should spark a larger re-assessment of popular attitudes toward religion, not only in the Iberian Atlantic, but also in the other corners of the early modern world." —Liam Matthew Brockey, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Winner of the 2009 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the category of Historical Study of Religion
Winner of the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History, McGill University.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
