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Conversion: Old Worlds and New (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Kenneth Mills, Anthony Grafton Conversion: Old Worlds and New (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Kenneth Mills, Anthony Grafton; Contributions by Allan Greer, Andrew Isenberg, Brad S. Gregory, …
R3,481 Discovery Miles 34 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Cultural Mobility - A Manifesto (Paperback, New): Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Zupanov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, P al Ny... Cultural Mobility - A Manifesto (Paperback, New)
Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Zupanov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, P al Ny iri, …
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cultural Mobility, first published in 2009, is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.

Cultural Mobility - A Manifesto (Hardcover): Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Zupanov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, P al Ny iri,... Cultural Mobility - A Manifesto (Hardcover)
Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Zupanov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, P al Ny iri, …
R1,970 R1,859 Discovery Miles 18 590 Save R111 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cultural Mobility, first published in 2009, is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.

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