Forced conversion can reanimate a faith that was quietly fading away

Evidence

For the Mudejar communities of Castile, socially already well assimilated by 1500, forcing them to become in religious matters superficially identical with their Christian neighbors was in some cases counterproductive. At least some of the ex-Mudejars who had elicited little interest in religious matters were spurred on to recover in secret the religion that they had seemed likely to lose as a result of slow and insensible erosion. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 392 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revanchist preaching drove congregants away while resignation retained them — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 934; Many early medieval Christians drifted out of Christianity passively without formal conversion; Coerced religious uniformity can revive the faith it aims to extinguish — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 392

Broader Connections

• Coerced religious uniformity can revive the faith it aims to extinguish #corroborates (0.97) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 392