A study of social organization, political power, conversion to Christianity, and church building in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire in 400-1066 AD, 'Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire' argues that the decision of local kin-groups to convert to Christianity transfor…
A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and early modern spaces across and beyond Europe.
In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation a…
Introduction: Christianity and the state in Asia : complicity and conflict / Julius Bautista, Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Evangelism, the state, and subjectivity / Bryan S. Turner -- IsProtestant conversion a form of protest? : urban and uplandProtestants in Southeast Asia / Oscar S…
"This book examines Augustine's intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13-21.27. It is widely assumed that this occurred in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine's volitional conversion in the garden at Milan. Brian Dobell a…