Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity: Shifting Identities - Creating Change 9783653050820, 9783631658512, 3653050820

For decades, Arthur D. Nock's famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion h

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Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity: Shifting Identities - Creating Change
9783653050820, 9783631658512, 3653050820

For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have g

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Christianity has become the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America, but very little solid research exists

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The question of ‘identity’ arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or anot

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The question of ‘identity’ arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or anot

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The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepo

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The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay

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The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenome

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For minority faith groups living in nineteenth-century Iran, religious conversion to Islam - both voluntary and forced -

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Sean Hannan offers a new interpretation of Augustine of Hippo’s approach to temporality by contrasting it with contempor

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This volume presents the proceedings of the conference Materiality and Conversion: The Role of Material and Visual Cultu

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