TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLynn,Neil B.
AU  - Papaconstantinou,Arietta
AU  - Schwartz,Daniel Louis
AU  - Sizgorich,Thomas
ED  - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar
TI  - Conversion in late antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and beyond : papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010 
SN  - 1409457389 (hbk.) 
U1  - 248.2409 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Farnham
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Islam
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - "This volume emerges from an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, 'About Turns: Conversion in late antique Christianity, Islam and Beyond', held at the University of Oxford during the academic year 2009-2010 and convened by Neil McLynn, Arietta Papaconstantinou, and David Taylor."--Acknowledgments, p. [xiii]; "In memory of Tom Sizgorich"--P. [ii]; Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-272) and index; In memoriam : Thomas Sizgorich (1970-2011); Arietta Papaconstantinou --; Introduction; by  Arietta Papaconstantinou --; Principles; 1; Christian conversion in late antiquity : some issues; Averil Cameron; 2; Christians and others : the conversion ethos of late antiquity; 3; Competing religious conversions and re-conversions in contemporary Mongolia; Vesna A. Wallance --; Practice. I; Raison d'©♭tat; 4; From unholy madness to right-mindedness, or; How to legislate for religious conformity from Decius to Justinian; 5; From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang : the rhetoric of imperial conversion and the divisive emergence of religious identities in late antique Eurasia; Antonello Palumbo; 6, The;  diffusion, persecution and transformation of Manichaeism in late antiquity and pre-Modern China; Samuel N.C. Lieu; Practice. II; Human ambiguities; 7; Narratives of violence : confronting Pagans; Christopher Kelly;  8; Mind the gap : accidental conversion and the hagiographic imaginary in the first centuries A.H.; Thomas Sizgorich;  9; Rural converters among the Arabs;  10; Conversion, apostasy, and penance : the shifting identities of Muslim converts in the early islamic period practice --; III; Symbols and institutions; 11, The; rabbinic conversion to Judaism; Moshe Lavee; 12, The;  rabbinic conversion of Judaism; 12; How to get rid of Venus : some remarks on Jerome's Vita Hilarionis and the conversion of Elusa in the Negev; Konstantin M. Klein; 13; Conversion and environment in East Asia : the Case of Buddhism; Max Deeg --; Building Jerusalem; 14; The conversion of Aelia Capitolina to Christianity in the fourth century; Jan Willem Drijvers; 15; A Christian city with a major Muslim shrine : Jerusalem in the Umayyad period; Robert Schick
N2  - "The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: to Christianity at its start, and to Islam at the other end. Challenging the opposition between the two stereotypes of Islamic conversion as an intrinsically violent process, and Christian conversion as a fundamentally spiritual one, the papers seek to isolate the behaviours and circumstances that made conversion both such a common and such a contested phenomenon. The spread of Buddhism in Asia in broadly the same period serves as an external comparator that was not caught in the net of the Abrahamic religions. The volume is organised around several themes, reflecting the concerns of the initial project with the articulation between norm and practice, the role of authorities and institutions, and the social and individual fluidity on the ground."--Back cover
ER  -