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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Titre(s) : Religious conversion [Texte imprimé] : history, experience and meaning / edited by Ira Katznelson,... Miri Rubin,...
Publication : London ; New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-266 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Conversion of space / Ora Limor ; Demography, geography and the accelerated Islamisation
of the Eastern Mediterranean / Ronnie Ellenblum ; The Christianisation of time in
fifteenth-century Ethiopia / Steven Kaplan ; Church space and religious change in
Reformation Germany / Bridget Heal ; Changing minds ; changing bodies : the gender
and subject of conversion / Joshua Levinson ; Conversion and masculinity in the early
Medieval West / Yitzhak Hen ; Looking for change : Jewish women and conversion in
eighteenth-century Germany / Rotraud Ries ; Constructing and undermining Converso
Jewishness : Profiat Duran and Pablo de Santa María / Yosi Yisraeli ; Jewish self-definition
against Christianisation / Simha Goldin ; 'Double conversions' in the early modern
period : the road to religious scepticism? / Michael Heyd.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
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.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Katznelson, Ira (1944-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rubin, Miri (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Conversion religieuse -- Histoire
Religion et culture -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472421494. - ISBN 1472421493. - ISBN 9781472421500 (erroné). - ISBN 9781472421517
(erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45298692f
Notice n° :
FRBNF45298692
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