The Complexity of Conversion: Intersectional Perspectives on Religious Change in Antiquity and Beyond (Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 178179572X ISBN 13: 9781781795729

Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Just as it is today, conversion was also a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon in the ancient world. Using Jewish and Christian primary sources, this volume discusses what this change could have meant for various individuals or groups of people in the ancient world and argues that conversion can best be understood through an intersectional perspective, an approach that includes gender, class, ethnicity, and age, as well as political and economic elements in its analysis of conversion. A discussion of conversion benefits from taking into account conversion's history of reception, and this volume examines case studies from the reception history, alongside contemporary examples of contested conversions (for example, from Christianity to Islam or vice versa). This book initiates a dialogue between ancient sources and present concepts or practices, and considers how sacred texts and their receptions have influenced the way we think about conversion as religious change.

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Valerie Nicolet is "maitre de conferences" at the Institut protestant de theologie, faculte de Paris, where she teaches New Testament and Ancient Greek. Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is professor of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178179572X
• ISBN 13: 9781781795729
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
• Herausgeber: Nicolet Valérie, Kartzow Marianne Bjelland
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