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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 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 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 Conversion in Late Antiquity Christianity Islam and Beyond Papers from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar University of Oxford 2009 2010A collection of workshop papers ranging from Jerusalem under Christian and Muslim rule to contemporary Mongolian religions from early medieval Chinese Buddhism to Greek authors, Conversion in late antiquityi era It s nice to expose regional specialists to each other s worksand then what Kindle Edition
| Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond: Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010 By Arietta Papaconstantinou |
| 1409463850 |
| 9781409463856 |
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| 437 |
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