Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Conversion"
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Christian Slavery: Protestant Missions and Slave Conversion in the Atlantic World, 1660-1760
(2013-09-23)"Christian Slavery" shows how Protestant missionaries in the early modern Atlantic World developed a new vision for slavery that integrated Christianity with human bondage. Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries arrived ... -
Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique
(2014-10-21)Recent scholarship on Africa gives the impression of a singular narrative regarding Pentecostalism, that of inexorable rise. Indisputably, Pentecostalism's "explosion" throughout the global South is one of today's more ... -
“Recte Perficitur”: Sermons to the Jews and the Rhetoric of Conversion (1572-1585)
(2022-05-13)This dissertation examines the rhetoric of Jewish conversion during the institutionalization of the Roman Catholic practice of preaching to the Jews under Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585). Focusing primarily on the sermon ...