The debate over a crypto-Jewish presence in New Mexico: The role of ethnographic allegory and orientalism. From: Sociology of Religion | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Carroll, Michael P. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Association for the Sociology of Religion. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Since the 1970s, an increasing number of Hispanics in the Southwest have claimed descent from Sephardic crypto-Jews who settled in that area centuries ago to escape the Inquisition. Although these claims were generally received sympathetically by scholars and scholarly journals, serious doubts about these claims have now been raised in the popular media. One goal of the present article is to provide a balanced overview of the debate as it now stands, and, in particular, to assess the plausi...

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