Conversion: Old Worlds and New

A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times.

List of contents

Conversion and Compromise in Thirteenth-Century England - Valerie I.J. Flint
Conversion and Conformity in the Early Fifteenth Century - John Van Engen
To the Point of Shedding Your Blood: The Bible, Communities of Faith and Martyrs' Resistance to Conversion in the Reformation Era - Brad S. Gregory
Translating Christianity: Counter-Reformation Europe and the Catholic Mission in China, 1580-1780 - R. Po-chia Hsia
Twisting a Pagan Tongue: Portuguese and Tamil in Sixteenth- Century Jesuit Translations - Ines Zupanov
Converting the Ancestors: Indirect Rule, Settlement Consolidation, and the Struggle over Burial in Colonial Peru (1532-1614) - Peter Gose
Conversion and Identity: Iroquois Christianity in Seventeenth-Century New France - Allan Greer
Object Lessons: Fetishism and the Hierarchies of Race and Religion - David Murray
To see inside of an Indian: Missionaries and Dakotas in the Minnesota Borderlands - Andrew C. Isenberg
Tickets, Concerts and School Fees: Money and New Christian Communities in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-40 - L. Carol Summers
Literacy in the Eye of India's Conversion Storm - Gauri Viswanathan

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Mills
• Assisted by: Anthony Grafton (Editor), Anthony T Grafton-Left Princeton 2008 (Editor), Kenneth Mills (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2003
• EAN: 9781580461238
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-123-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Studies in Comparative History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Geschichte der Religion, RELIGION / Christian Life / General, RELIGION / History, Religion - Christian Life