Conversion: Old Worlds and New (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times. This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously debated. The historical settings treated here stretch from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century southern India and Andean Peru, from Bohemia to China during the age of the Reformations, from the fifteenth-century Low Countries to seventeenth-century New France and from the nineteenth-century Minnesota borderlands to late colonial Zimbabwe and modern India. The book's broad mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge about particular places and times, and spark new thinking about religious change, cultural appropriations, and interactive emergence across discipline and fields. This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, is also published by the University of Rochester Press.

General

Imprint:	University of Rochester Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Comparative History
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	Kenneth Mills (Contributor) • Anthony Grafton
Contributors:	Allan Greer (Contributor) • Andrew Isenberg (Royalty Account) • Brad S. Gregory (Royalty Account) • Carol Summers (Contributor) • David Murray • Gauri Viswanathan (Contributor) • Ines Zupanov • John Van Engen (Author)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	320
Edition:	Annotated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-58046-123-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > General Books > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
LSN:	1-58046-123-9
Barcode:	9781580461238

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