Conversions - Two Family Stories From the Reformation and Modern America

Explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges. This title begins with the story of young Jacob Rolandus, the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, who converted to Catholicism in 1654 and ran away from home.

About the author

Craig Harline is professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the award-winning author of five previous books, including Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe and Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl.

Summary

The experiences of two families-one in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America today-and how they coped when a family member changed religions

Product details

• Authors: Craig Harline, Craig E. Harline, Harline Craig
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2013
• EAN: 9780300192445
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19244-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: New Directions in Narrative History; New Directions in Narrative Hi; New Directions in Narrative History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; USA, RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, United States of America, USA, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience