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Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age

Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas

by Calvin B. KendallOliver NicholsonWilliam D. Phillips Jr.Marguerite Ragnow
Contributors: Christian AggelerFelipe Fernández-ArmestoJohn M. HeadleyLaura HebertCalvin B. KendallJohn KoegelOliver NicholsonPatrick Provost-SmithJohn F. SchwallerJonathan ShepardJames B. TuellerRobin Darling Young

This debut volume in the new series Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History brings a comparative approach to what, in recent years, has been a hotly debated topic within and across a number of academic disciplines: conversion to Christianity. These debates register the challenges inherent in attempting to understand a transformation that was at once personal and collective -- a matter of inner conviction and outward conformity. The essays in this volume range from the late antique Middle East to medieval Western and Eastern Europe; from early modern Asia to the Americas and the islands in the central Pacific. Collectively, the ten authors encourage consideration of the conversion phenomenon comparatively across time and space.

This volume was originally published in print in 2009 by the Center for Early Modern History.

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Metadata

  • isbn
    978-1-946135-63-6
  • original publisher
    Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota
  • original publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • rights holder
    University of Minnesota
  • series number
    1
  • series title
    Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History

Table of Contents

Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas

  • Editors' Note and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Conceptualizing Conversion in Global Perspective
  • Constantinople: Christian City, Christian Landscape
  • Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Aphrodisias
  • The Conversion of Armenia as a Literary Work
  • Modeling Conversion
  • A Path to Holiness
  • The Coming of Christianity to Rus
  • The New Constantinianism
  • Conversion, Engagement, and Extirpation
  • Music and Christianization on the Northern Frontier of New Spain
  • Networks of Conversion
  • Epilogue: Conversion in Retrospect
  • Contributors
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