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Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond - Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond - Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar
held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to
investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion
that frame late antiquity: to Christianity at its start, and to
Islam at the other end. Challenging the opposition between the two
stereotypes of Islamic conversion as an intrinsically violent
process, and Christian conversion as a fundamentally spiritual one,
the papers seek to isolate the behaviours and circumstances that
made conversion both such a common and such a contested phenomenon.
The spread of Buddhism in Asia in broadly the same period serves as
an external comparator that was not caught in the net of the
Abrahamic religions. The volume is organised around several themes,
reflecting the concerns of the initial project with the
articulation between norm and practice, the role of authorities and
institutions, and the social and individual fluidity on the ground.
Debates, discussions, and the expression of norms and principles
about conversion conversion are not rare in societies experiencing
religious change, and the first section of the book examines some
of the main issues brought up by surviving sources. This is
followed by three sections examining different aspects of how those
principles were - or were not - put into practice: how conversion
was handled by the state, how it was continuously redefined by
individual ambivalence and cultural fluidity, and how it was
enshrined through different forms of institutionalization. Finally,
a topographical coda examines the effects of religious change on
the iconic holy city of Jerusalem.
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