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Religious Conversion - History, Experience and Meaning (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Religious Conversion - History, Experience and Meaning (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of
faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different
circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion
can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or
large. It may be the result of active missionary efforts,
instrumental decisions, or intellectual or spiritual attraction to
a different doctrine and practices. In order to investigate these
multiple meanings, and how they may differ across time and space,
this collection ranges far and wide across medieval and early
modern Europe and beyond. From early Christian pilgrims to
fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation of the eastern
Mediterranean to Reformation Germany, the volume highlights salient
features and key concepts that define religious conversion,
particular the Jewish, Muslim and Christian experiences. By probing
similarities and variations, continuities and fissures, the volume
also extends the range of conversion to focus on matters less
commonly examined, such as competition for the meaning of sacred
space, changes to bodies, patterns of gender, and the ways
conversion has been understood and narrated by actors and
observers. In so doing, it promotes a layered approach that deepens
inquiry by identifying and suggesting constellations of elements
that both compose particular instances of conversion and help make
systematic comparisons possible by indicating how to ask comparable
questions of often vastly different situations.
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