Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age

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Название: Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age

Автор: Kendall C. et al (ed.)

Издательство: University of Minnesota

ISBN: 978-0-9797559-0-3

Год выпуска: 2009

Страниц: 459

Формат: pdf

Размер: 21,8 мб

Язык: English

This debut volume in the new series Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History brings a comparative approach to what, in recent years, has been a hotly debated topic within and across a number of academic disciplines: conversion to Christianity. These debates register the challenges inherent in attempting to understand a transformation that was at once personal and collective - a matter of inner conviction and outward conformity. The essays in this volume range from the late antique Middle East to medieval Western and Eastern Europe; from early modern Asia to the Americas and islands in the Central Pacific. Collectively, the ten authors encourage consideration of the conversion phenomenon comparatively across time and space. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Prince of Asturias Professor the History at Tufts University, frames the essays in a broader global perspective in light of the two other major world religions, Islam and Buddhism, in his Prologue, while John M.