The Complexity of Conversion: Intersectional Perspectives on Religious Change in

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The book addresses the complexity of conversion, using a range of cases, texts and theories, and initiates a dialogue between ancient sources and present concepts or practices. Close readings of ancient texts play a central role in the project.

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Today, conversion is a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon, and that was also the case in the ancient world. Using several primary sources (Jewish and Christian) and case studies, this volume discusses what this change could have meant for various individuals or groups of people in the ancient world and argues that conversion can best be understood through an intersectional perspective, an approach that includes gender, class, ethnicity, and age, as well as political and economic elements in its analysis of conversion. The volume also acknowledges that a discussion of conversion benefits from taking into account conversion's history of reception. Case studies from the reception history as well as contemporary examples of contested conversions (for example, from Christianity to Islam or vice versa) are also brought to the table. In sum, the book addresses the complexity of conversion, using a range of cases, texts and theories, and initiates a dialogue between ancient sources and present concepts or practices. Close readings of ancient texts play a central role in the project. Yet, the book also considers how sacred texts and their receptions have influenced the way we generally think about conversation as religious change.

Author Biography

Valerie Nicolet is "maitre de conferences" at the Institut protestant de theologie, faculte de Paris, where she teaches New Testament and Ancient Greek. Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is professor of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Table of Contents

1. What Is So Complex About Conversion?Marianne Bjelland Kartzow and Valérie Nicolet2. Shedding Religious Skin: An Intersectional Analysis of the Claim that Male Circumcision Limits Religious FreedomKarin B. Neutel, University of Oslo3. Complex Interactions: Conversion and Interreligious Dialogue in the Norwegian ContextAnne Hege Grung, University of Oslo4. Conversion in Mystery Religions? Theory Meets Mysteries and ConversionGerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa5. "Leap, Ye, Lame for Joy": The Dynamics of Disability in ConversionAnna Rebecca Solevåg, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway6. Reading a Complex Identity in Conversion: Interpretations of the Ethiopian EunuchMinna Heimola, Independent Scholar7. Creating a New Sex: Women Bodies in ConversionValérie Nicolet8. Conversion in/to the Wilderness: The Case of the Egyptian Slave Girl Hagar in Early Christian and Jewish TextsMarianne Bjelland Kartzow9. The Complexity of Aseneth's TransformationKirsten Marie Hartvigsen, University of Oslo10. Leaving the Traditions of the Fathers: Perspectives on Conversion from a Christianity That Did Not SurviveKristine Toft Rosland, University of South-Eastern Norway / University of Oslo11. Spatial Conversion and Christian Identity in Late AntiquityAnna Lampadaridi, Institut Protestant de Théologie (Paris)12. Concluding RemarksValérie Nicolet

Review

Offers something new and worthwhile to scholarship on conversion in antiquity.Matthew Thiessen, McMaster UniversityMakes a significant contribution not only to the discussion of ancient conversion experiences but also to the discursive framework in which we as modern scholars try to understand those experiences.Zeba A. Crook, Carleton University

Details ISBN1781795738 ISBN-10 1781795738 ISBN-13 9781781795736 Format Paperback Publisher Equinox Publishing Ltd Short Title The Complexity of Conversion Language English Subtitle Intersectional Perspectives on Religious Change in Antiquity and Beyond DEWEY 204.2 Imprint Equinox Publishing Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-11-15 NZ Release Date 2021-11-15 Pages 274 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-11-15 UK Release Date 2021-11-15 Author Marianne Kartzow Series Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture Edited by Marianne Kartzow Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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