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.
By: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar (2009-2010 : University of Oxford)
Contributor(s): Papaconstantinou, Arietta [editor.] | McLynn, Neil B. (Neil Brendan) [editor.] | Schwartz, Daniel Louis [editor.]
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TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxxvii, 398 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409457381; 1409457389Subject(s): Conversion -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses | Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses | Conversion -- Islam -- History -- Congresses | Islam -- History -- To 1500 -- CongressesDDC classification: 204/.2 LOC classification: BV4916.3 | .A53 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-372) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-372) and index.
Christian conversion in late antiquity: some issues / Averil Cameron -- Christians and others: the conversion ethos of late antiquity / Polymnia Athanassiadi -- Competing religious conversions and re-conversions in contemporary Mongolia / Vesna A. Wallace -- From unholy madness to right-mindedness: or how to legislate for religious conformity from Decius to Justinian / Simon Corcoran -- 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 -- The diffusion, persecution and transformation of Manichaeism in late antiquity and pre-modern China / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- Narratives of violence: confronting pagans / Christopher Kelly -- Mind the gap: accidental conversion and the hagiographic imaginary in the first centuries A.H. / Thomas Sizgorich -- Rural converters among the Arabs / Elizabeth Key Fowden -- Conversion, apostasy, and penance: the shifting identities of Muslim converts in the early Islamic period / Uriel Simonsohn -- The Rabbinic conversion to Judaism; the Rabbinic conversion of Judaism / Moshe Lavee -- How to get rid of Venus: some remarks on Jerome's Vita hilarionis and the conversion of Elusa in the Negev / Konstantin M. Klein -- Conversion and environment in East Asia - the case of Buddhism / Max Deeg -- The conversion of Aelia Capitolina to Christianity in the fourth century / Jan Willem Drijvers -- A Christian city with a major Muslim shrine: Jerusalem in the Umayyad period / Robert Schick.