Conversion and Narrative : Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic /

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The author draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Szpiech, Ryan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religious biography.
Muslim converts from Christianity.
Judaism.
Jewish converts from Christianity.
Islam.
Interfaith relations.
Identification (Religion)
Conversion > Christianity.
Christianity.
Christian converts from Judaism.
Apologetics > Middle Ages.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Islam > Relations > Christianisme.
Judaïsme > Relations > Christianisme.
Christianisme > Relations > Islam.
Christianisme > Relations > Judaïsme.
Chretiens convertis à l'islam > Histoire.
Chretiens convertis au judaïsme > Histoire.
Juifs convertis au christianisme > Histoire.
Apologetique > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Muslim converts from Christianity > History.
Jewish converts from Christianity > History.
Christian converts from Judaism > History.
Identification (Religion) > History > To 1500.
Religious biography > History and criticism.
Conversion > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Apologetics > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The author draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780812207613

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