Abstract

Today we begin to perceive how complex and diverse the relationship between military and institutional conquest and “spiritual conquest” was, according to Robert Ricard’s famous definition .1In the past, this problem has usually been investigated from the point of view of the entrance of European Christianity into the Atlantic World through the migrations of Europeans to Africa and America. However, more often, particularly in recent decades, scholars have begun to focus their interest on other religious groups, investigating their influence and their concrete presence in the Atlantic space during the Early Modern ..