Strange gods a secular history of conversion
From the best-selling author of The Age of American Unreason, a provocative social history of the secular forces driving conversion-for better and for worse-in the Western world, from the transformation of the Jewish Saul into Christianity's first proselytizer Paul to the twenty first-century r...
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Pantheon Books
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Young Christendom and the fading pagan gods. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) ; The way, the truth, the life, the Empire ; Coercion, conversion, and heresy
- Part II: From Convivencia to the stake. Bishop Paul of Burgos (c. 1352-1435) ; Impureza de sangre : the crumbling of the Convivencia ; The Inquisition and the end
- Part III: Reformations. John Donne (1572-1631) ; "Not with sword ... but with printing" ; Persecution in an age of religious conversion
- Part IV: Conversions in the dawn of the Enlightenment. Margaret Fell (1614-1702) : woman's mind, woman's voice ; Religious choice and early Enlightenment thought ; Miracles versus evidence : conversion and science ; Prelude: O my America!
- Part V: The Jewish conversion question : where Christianity stumped its toe. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) : convictionless conversion ; The varieties of coercive experience ; Edith Stein (1891-1942) : the sainthood of a converted Jew
- Part VI: American exceptionalism : toward religious choice as a natural right. Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) : anti-intellectualism and the battle for reason ; Remaking the Protestant American compact
- Interregnum: Absolutism and its discontents. True believers
- Part VII: The way we live now. "The greatest" : Muhammad Ali and the demythologizing decade ; American dreaming
- Conclusion: Darkness visible