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Conversion in late antiquity : Christianity, Islam, and beyond : papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010 / edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Neil McLynn and Daniel L. Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION SAWYER SEMINAR(2009-20
- Conference Name:
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar (2009-2010 : University of Oxford)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conversion--Christianity--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Conversion.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
- Church history.
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
- Conversion--Islam--History--Congresses.
- Islam--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxvii, 398 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
- Contents:
- In memoriam : Thomas Sizgorich (1970-2011) / Arietta Papaconstantinou
- Introduction / by Arietta Papaconstantinou
- Principles. 1, Christian conversion in late antiquity : some issues / Averil Cameron. 2, Christians and others : the conversion ethos of late antiquity. 3, Competing religious conversions and re-conversions in contemporary Mongolia / Vesna A. Wallance
- Practice. I, Raison d'état. 4, From unholy madness to right-mindedness, or, How to legislate for religious conformity from Decius to Justinian. 5, From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang : the rhetoric of imperial conversion and the divisive emergence of religious identities in late antique Eurasia / Antonello Palumbo. 6, The diffusion, persecution and transformation of Manichaeism in late antiquity and pre-Modern China / Samuel N.C. Lieu
- Practice. II, Human ambiguities. 7, Narratives of violence : confronting Pagans / Christopher Kelly. 8, Mind the gap : accidental conversion and the hagiographic imaginary in the first centuries A.H. / Thomas Sizgorich. 9, Rural converters among the Arabs. 10, Conversion, apostasy, and penance : the shifting identities of Muslim converts in the early islamic period practice
- III. Symbols and institutions. 11, The rabbinic conversion to Judaism / Moshe Lavee. 12, The rabbinic conversion of Judaism. 12, How to get rid of Venus : some remarks on Jerome's Vita Hilarionis and the conversion of Elusa in the Negev / Konstantin M. Klein. 13, Conversion and environment in East Asia : the Case of Buddhism / Max Deeg
- Building Jerusalem. 14, The conversion of Aelia Capitolina to Christianity in the fourth century / Jan Willem Drijvers. 15, A Christian city with a major Muslim shrine : Jerusalem in the Umayyad period / Robert Schick.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-372) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781317159728 (electronic bk.)
- 1317159721 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99992596589
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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