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44. Kee, “From the Jesus Movement Toward Institutional Church.”
45. Robert Hefner, “Introduction: World Building and the Rationality of
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49. Galanté, Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetaï Sevi, 60.
50. For the important role women played in other secret convert societies,
see Hilda Nissimi, The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: The Shaping of Religious and
Communal Identity in Their Journey from Iran to New York (Portland, UK: Sussex
Academic Press, 2007 ), 44 – 51 ; and Mary Elizabeth Perry, The Handless Maiden:
Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Princeton: Prince-
ton University Press, 2005 ), 65 – 87. Mashhadi and Morisca women had an even
larger role to play in leadership of the community and transmission of the reli-
gion than Dönme women.
51. Scholem, “Crypto-Jewish Community,” 152.
52. She was used as a decoy and a sentry, not unlike in Mashhadi society. See
Nissimi, Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis, 45 – 46.
53. Wladimer Gordlevsky, “Zur Frage über die ‘Dönme’ (Die Rolle der Juden
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