Religious conversion : history, experience and meaning
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Religious conversion : history, experience and meaning
Routledge, 2016, c2014
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Katznelson Ira, Rubin Miri
- Chapter 1 Conversion of Space, Limor Ora
- Chapter 2 Demography, Geography and the Accelerated Islamisation of the Eastern Mediterranean, Ellenblum Ronnie
- Chapter 3 The Christianisation of Time in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopia, Kaplan Steven
- Chapter 4 Church Space and Religious Change in Reformation Germany, Heal Bridget
- Chapter 5 Changing Minds - Changing Bodies: The Gendered Subject of Conversion, Levinson Joshua
- Chapter 6 Conversion and Masculinity in the Early Medieval West, Hen Yitzhak
- Chapter 7 1I would like to thank my colleague at Canterbury, Maria Diemling, for her comments on the text and for her advice with the translation. The draft of this article has been finished at the end of 2009. Newly published literature has not been accounted for since then. Please note the following publications though: Rotraud Ries, Zwischenraeume - Orte, Worte und Wege von Konvertiten zwischen Judentum und Christentum, in Christoph Bultmann, Joerg Ruepke, Sabine Schmolinsky (eds), Religionen in Nachbarschaft. Pluralismus als Markenzeichen der europaeischen Religionsgeschichte (Muenster: Aschendorff Verlag 2012), 87-108
- Annekathrin Helbig, Konversion, Kindheit und Jugend - Taufen judischer Kinder im 18. Jahrhundert, WerkstattGeschichte 63 (2013), 45-60
- Michaela Schmoelz-Haeberlein, Juden in Bamberg (1633-1802/03). Lebensverhaeltnisse und Handlungsspielraeume einer staedtischen Minderheit (Wuerzburg: Ergon 2014) (Judentum - Christentum - Islam. Interreligioese Studien 11), 213-240., Ries Rotraud
- Chapter 8 1This article is partly based on a paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Yale University, 18-20 March, 2010., Yisraeli Yosi
- Chapter 9 1This article is based on a broad on-going research project which examines attitudes of Jews towards other Jews who had converted to Christianity. Its results will be published in Apostasy and Jewish Identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe: Are you still my brother? (Forthcoming 2015, Manchester University Press), Goldin Simha
- Chapter 10 'Double Conversions' in the Early Modern Period: The Road to Religious Scepticism?, Heyd Michael
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