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The articles explore individual religious transformation in Antiquity, with a focus on initiation and conversion and their definitions, content and characteristics. They investigate different facets of these phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives.

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For decades, Arthur D. Nock's famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity (Ebeltoft, Denmark, December 2012) – aim to nuance this understanding. They do so by exploring different facets of these two phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives. The result is a compilation of many new insights into ancient initiation and conversion as well as their definitions and characteristics.

Author Biography

Birgitte Secher Bøgh studied Science of Religion and Classics at Aarhus University (Denmark). At the moment she is doing research in the field of ancient mystery cults. Her work focuses on the mysteries of Cybele, Mithras, Dionysus and Isis, their connection to other ancient religions as well as on different phenomena related to these cults.

Table of Contents

Contents: Birgitte Bøgh: In Life and Death: Choice and Conversion in the Cult of Dionysos – Éric Rebillard: Becoming Christian in Carthage in the Age of Tertullian – Jan N. Bremmer: Conversion in the oldest Apocryphal Acts – Jakob Engberg: Human and Divine Agency in Conversion in Apologetic Writings of the Second Century: To "Dance with Angels" – Nicholas Marshall: Ontological Conversion: A Description and Analysis of Two Case Studies from Tertullian's De Baptismo and Iamblichus' De Mysteriis – Zeba Crook: Agents of Apostasy, Delegates of Disaffiliation – Carmen Cvetkovi: Change and Continuity: Reading Anew Augustine's Conversion – Luther H. Martin: "The Devil is in the Details". Hellenistic Mystery Initiation Rites: Bridge-Burning or Bridge-Building? – Kate Cooper/James Corke-Webster: Conversion, Conflict, and the Drama of Social Reproduction: Narratives of Filial Resistance in Early Christianity and Modern Britain – Radcliffe G. Edmonds III: There and Back Again: Temporary Immortality in the Mithras Liturgy – Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Identity Formation through Catechetical Teaching in Early Christianity – Per Bilde: The Role of Religious Education in six of the Pagan Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Period – Roger Beck: Educating a Mithraist – Elisabetta Abate: Observations on Late Antique Rabbinic Sources on Instruction of Would-Be Converts – Tobias Georges: The Role of Philosophy and Education in Apologists' Conversion to Christianity: The Case of Justin and Tatian.

Details ISBN3631658516 Short Title CONVERSION & INITIATION IN ANT Pages 311 Series Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity Language English ISBN-10 3631658516 ISBN-13 9783631658512 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 204.2 Series Number 16 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-12-29 Imprint Peter Lang AG Place of Publication Bern Country of Publication Switzerland UK Release Date 2014-12-29 Author Birgitte Secher Bøgh Publisher Peter Lang AG Edition Description New edition Subtitle Shifting Identities – Creating Change Edited by Birgitte Secher Bøgh Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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