Conversion In Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, And Beyond: Papers From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University Of Oxford, 2009-2010

The papers in this volume investigate the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: Christianity and Islam. Despite their historical significance, those two movements of conversion have never been systematically compared to each other, and this volume attempts to do this by studying the various issues at stake in conversion for both religions. Some perspectives from the rise of Buddhism in East Asia at roughly the same period have been included so as to avoid remaining within purely Mediterranean and monotheistic models.

• • Author: Dr Neil McLynn, Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou, Dr Daniel L Schwartz
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Sep 11, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 436 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409457389
• • ISBN-13: 9781409457381