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Passages of Faith : Conversion in Palestinian villages (17th century).
The book sets out to explain the diffusion of Catholicism and Islam in the 17th-century district of Jerusalem through a detailed analysis of the changes of faith undergone by the inhabitants of some villages in the area (Dayr Aban,?uba, Bethlehem, Bayt Jala, Bayt Sha?ur and Ayn Karim). The way a new...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2014.
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| Series: | Göttinger Orientforschungen. Syriaca.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The book sets out to explain the diffusion of Catholicism and Islam in the 17th-century district of Jerusalem through a detailed analysis of the changes of faith undergone by the inhabitants of some villages in the area (Dayr Aban,?uba, Bethlehem, Bayt Jala, Bayt Sha?ur and Ayn Karim). The way a new faith spread within and between the local Christian communities was the result of a complex interaction between religious landscape, communal dynamics and individual agency, which the book unravels. Through the stories of the conversions of the Christian villagers, as recorded in contemporary Chris. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (173 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783447192958 344719295X |