Conversion : old worlds and new / edited by Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mills, Kenneth, 1964-

Grafton, Anthony

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Studies in comparative history 1539-4905.

Studies in comparative history, 1539-4905.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversion--Christianity--History--Congresses.

Conversion.

Conversion--Christianity.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, [2003]

Contents:

Conversion and compromise in thirteenth-century England / Valerie I.J. Flint

Conversion and conformity in the early fifteenth century / John Van Engen

"To the point of shedding your blood" : the Bible, communities of faith, and martyrs' resistance to conversion in the Reformation era / Brad S. Gregory

Translating Christianity : Counter-Reformation Europe and the Catholic mission in China, 1580-1780 / R. Po-Chia Hsia

Twisting a pagan tongue : Portuguese and Tamil in sixteenth-century Jesuit translations / Ines Županov

Converting the ancestors : indirect rule, settlement consolidation, and the struggle over burial in colonial Peru, 1532-1614 / Peter Gose

Conversion and identity : Iroquois Christianity in seventeenth-century New France / Allan Greer

Object lessons : fetishism and the hierarchies of race and religion / David Murray

"To see inside of an Indian" : missionaries and Dakotas in the Minnesota borderlands / Andrew C. Isenberg

Tickets, concerts and school fees : money and New Christian communities in colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1940 / Carol Summers

Literacy in the eye of India's conversion storm / Gauri Viswanathan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

1580461239

OCLC:

51637663