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Old Wine in New Bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) Converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835–1845

Religion

Of special relevance in what follows are three of [anthropologist Robin] Horton's more general and interrelated points - ideas and assumpti...

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This paper, titled "Old Wine in New Bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) Converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835–1845," promises a focused and...

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Lynette Olson

The Conversion of the Visigoths and Bulgarians Compared

History

This paper is written to bring out various themes relevant to the subject of this book. It is not the first time such a comparison has been...

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This paper proposes an intriguing comparative study of the conversions of the Visigoths and Bulgarians, a topic with significant implications for unde...

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Wojciech Dabrowski

Not by Word Alone: Cross-cultural Communication between Highlanders and Missionaries (SVD) in the Jimi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Anthropology

Is communication (especially of complex religious ideas!) between peoples of different cultures possible and if it is, then under what cond...

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This paper promises a timely and critically engaged examination of cross-cultural communication, particularly concerning the transmission of complex r...

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Ruth V. Lewin-Broit

Prescribing Messiah: A Case Study concerning Internal Conversion

History

This paper aims to analyse certain issues in the social and religious history of medieval Jewish communities under the rule of Islam. Its f...

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This paper proposes an intriguing case study rooted in the social and religious history of medieval Jewish communities under Islamic rule, centering o...

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Helen McCulloch

Sex, Gender and Christian Conversion in Nineteenth-century South India

Gender

In this paper I am going to discuss firstly the impact of sex and gender on the representation of Protestant Christianity in India and upon...

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This paper proposes a compelling and timely examination of Christian conversion in 19th-century South India through the critical lenses of sex and gen...

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Bernard Martin

African Conversion and the 'Irish Question'

History

About a hundred years ago, the 'Irish question' in politics centred mostly on Home Rule; it occupied a good deal of Mr Gladstone's attentio...

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This abstract presents a highly intriguing opening, immediately setting a unique intellectual agenda. The author cleverly redefines the well-known "Ir...

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Carole M. Cusack

Towards a General Theory of Conversion

Religion

The phenomenon of conversion to Christianity may be approached from many differing viewpoints: as history of missions, as a sociological pr...

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The title, "Towards a General Theory of Conversion," sets an ambitious and compelling agenda, signaling a significant attempt to synthesize diverse un...

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Ahmad Shbuol

Christians and Muslims in Syria and Upper Mesopotamia in the Early Arab Islamic Period: Cultural Change and Continuity

History

This is a preliminary report of research in progress on social and cultural change in early Islamic Syria. Syria is defined here as the his...

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This preliminary report outlines a highly ambitious and timely research project investigating social and cultural transformations in Syria and Upper M...

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W. J. (Bill) Jobling

New Evidence for the History of Indigenous Aramaic Christianity in Southern Jordan

History

Pre-Islamic Southern Jordan has for some time been a much neglected Aramaic-speaking domain in the history of the spread of the early Chris...

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The abstract for "New Evidence for the History of Indigenous Aramaic Christianity in Southern Jordan" presents a highly promising and timely contribut...

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The paper, *Rethinking Old Problems: Matriliny, Secret Societies and Political Evolution*, proposes a critical re-examination of enduring anthropologi...