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ISBN: 9780195320923 0195320921 9780199910922 9780190062620 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,
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Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process.A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.
Conversion --- Christian converts --- Church history --- Christianity&delete& --- History --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- Christians --- Converts --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- 234.22 --- 234.22 Kairos. Bekering. Metanoia. Noodzakelijkheid van het geloof --- Kairos. Bekering. Metanoia. Noodzakelijkheid van het geloof --- Christian converts. --- Christianity. --- Conversion - Christianity.
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ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9789004416819 9004416811 9789004416826 900441682X Year: 2020 Volume: 164 Publisher: Leiden Boston BRILL
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"Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula but examining related European and Mediterranean contexts as well, Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam traces how Christians, Jews, and Muslims grappled with the contradictory phenomenon of faith brought about by constraint and compulsion. Forced conversion brought into sharp relief the tensions among the accepted notion of faith as a voluntary act, the desire to maintain "pure" communities, and the universal truth claims of radical monotheism. Offering a comparative view of an important yet insufficiently studied phenomenon in the history of religions, this collection of essays explores the ways in which religion and violence reshaped these three religions and the ways we understand them today"--
Conversion --- Religions --- Christianity --- History --- Judaism --- Islam --- Relations --- Iberian Peninsula --- Religion. --- Civilization. --- Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) --- Hispánica, Península --- Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) --- Ibérica, Península --- Península Hispánica --- Península Ibérica --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- History. --- 27 <460> "14/15" --- 234.22 --- 291.7 --- 291.7 Acties op religieuze beweeggronden: godsdienstoorlogen; missiewerking; zending; fanatisme; religieuze propaganda; fundamentalisme --- Acties op religieuze beweeggronden: godsdienstoorlogen; missiewerking; zending; fanatisme; religieuze propaganda; fundamentalisme --- 234.22 Kairos. Bekering. Metanoia. Noodzakelijkheid van het geloof --- Kairos. Bekering. Metanoia. Noodzakelijkheid van het geloof --- 27 <460> "14/15" Histoire de l'Eglise--Spanje--?"14/15" --- 27 <460> "14/15" Kerkgeschiedenis--Spanje--?"14/15" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Spanje--?"14/15" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Spanje--?"14/15" --- Conversion - Christianity - History - To 1500. --- Religions - Relations - History. --- Iberian Peninsula - History
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