Catholic saints are also signs. Through the saints, the Catholic Church communicates certain models of spirituality. After the Reformation, saints became the media through which the Catholic Church represented and promoted a renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and in its col…
These papers address the issues of religious conversion and religious conversion movements - a topic which has rapidly become the central issue of many scholarly debates. Many religions are discussed along with other relevant issues.
From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English-speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of Western int…
From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English-speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of Western int…
The Sacromonte Lead Books : The Events -- Granada Conquered : Castilianization and Conversion -- The Noble Families -- Alonso del Castillo : Translator, Author? -- Alonso del Castillo's Friends : Priests, Soldiers, Interpreters -- Diego Bejarano Al-Ajar and the Morisco Understan…
"In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of t…
