Xueta Christianity ( Catalan: cristianisme xueta) is a syncretic religion on the island of Majorca, Spain followed by the Xueta people, who are descendants of persecuted Jews who were converts to Christianity. [1] Traditionally, the church of Saint Eulalia and the church of Montesión ( Mount Zion) in Palma de Mallorca have been used by the families of Jewish converts ( Xuetas), and both are the centers of Xueta religious ritual life. [2] [3] [4] [5] The Palma's Mont Zion Church was once the main synagogue of Palma de Mallorca. [6] It is estimated that there are roughly 20,000 Chuetas living on the island of Majorca today, and they practiced strict endogamy by marrying only within their own group. [7]
References
- ^ "El cristianismo judío de un chueta pobre". Monografias.com (in Spanish). 9 February 2003. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "The New Yorker reviving Jewish life on a holiday island". BBC. 18 August 2019.
- ^ ""A Dead Branch on the Tree of Israel" The Xuetas of Majorca". Commentary. 17 February 1957.
- ^ Moore, Kenneth (1976). Those of the Street - The Catholic-Jews of Mallorca: a Study in Urban Cultural Change. Michigan University Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780674037830.
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^ Delamont, Sara (2002). Appetites and Identities: An Introduction to the Social Anthropology of Western Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 114.
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The Xueta had their own church—St Eulalia's—in their barrio, with a Xueta priest, and their own cofraternity (the Cross of Calvary) to march in the Holy Week procession.
- ^ "'Xuetas' Return to Their Roots in Majorca". Tabletmag. 9 January 2023.
- ^ "The New Yorker reviving Jewish life on a holiday island". BBC. 18 August 2019.
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