Figures Of Conversion

Author : Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199713547

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion by Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.

Author : Michael Ragussis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 082231570X

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Figures of Conversion by Michael Ragussis Pdf

Between the 1870s-90s, considerable attention was paid to Jews and Judaism by English critics and writers. Argues that the consideration of Jews by English writers was often in the context of their efforts to describe and improve the English character. Observes that alongside English antisemitism there existed English attitudes which were in effect protective of the Jews. These included the Evangelical Revival's desire to both protect and convert the Jew, the English self-definition as both tolerant and believing in God (in contrast with intolerant Spain of the Inquisition and godless France of the Revolution), and the view expressed in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" which was affirmative of Judaism and the quest for a Jewish national homeland.

Author : Federal Software Management Support Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computer programming
ISBN : UCR:31210024867499

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Conversion Management Handbook by Federal Software Management Support Center (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Michael Ragussis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-14
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0822378124

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Figures of Conversion by Michael Ragussis Pdf

I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew. --Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)When the hero of Defoe's novel listens skeptically to this anecdote related by a French Roman Catholic priest, he little suspects that in less than a century the conversion of the Jews would become nothing short of a national project--not in France but in England. In this book, Michael Ragussis explores the phenomenon of Jewish conversion--the subject of popular enthusiasm, public scandal, national debate, and dubbed the English madness by its critics--in Protestant England from the 1790s through the 1870s. Moving beyond the familiar catalog of anti-Semitic stereotypes, Ragussis analyzes the rhetoric of conversion as it was reinvented by the English in sermons, stories for the young, histories of the Jews, memoirs by Jewish converts, and popular novels. Alongside these texts and the countertexts produced by English Jews, he situates such writers as Edgeworth, Scott, Disraeli, Arnold, Trollope, and Eliot within the debate over conversion and related issues of race, gender, and nation-formation. His work reveals how a powerful group of emergent cultural projects--including a revisionist tradition of the novel, the new science of ethnology, and the rewriting of European history--redefined English national identity in response to the ideology of conversion, the history of the Jews, and the Jewish question. Figures of Conversion offers an entirely new way of regarding Jewish identity in nineteenth-century British culture and will be of importance not only to literary scholars but also to scholars of Judaic and religious studies, history, and cultural studies.

Author : League of Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Balance of trade
ISBN : UOM:39015033171219

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Review of World Trade, 1938 by League of Nations Pdf

Author : Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725234086

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Archetypes of Conversion by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins Pdf

This sensitive and imaginative study explores the phenomenon of conversion in three major religious autobiographies: the Confessions of Saint Augustine, Grace Abounding by John Bunyan, and Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. These three religious figures could hardly be more different, and yet, as Hawkins shows, their conversion narratives are remarkably similar in patterns of theme, figure, and action. This archetypal approach is particularly appropriate to spiritual autobiography, which is less concerned with "self" than with "soul" and which seeks to relate the individual to a divine reality that is universal and timeless. Hawkins' approach to these texts is sophisticated, yet free of jargon and doctrinaire psychologizing. Here, archetypal analysis becomes not an end in itself, but also a means to investigate the complexity of the individual text. Hawkins' archetypal analysis serves not only to discern continuities, but also to explore cultural, ideological, and psychological variations. Adapting William James's distinction between crisis and lysis conversion, Hawkins shows that the conversion paradigm central to each autobiography determines its religious meaning, its formal structure, and its archetypal emphases. The author approaches the phenomena of conversion with a blend of critical detachment and imaginative sympathy. She is always careful to honor the authenticity of religious experience, and for this reason her commentary succeeds in illuminating it. The result is an interdisciplinary study that will appeal to the psychologist and literary critic as well as the student of religion. But these narratives of conversion offer paradigms that apply to any deeply significant change, for they are of interest and concern to all readers seeking to find meaning in their lives. Hawkins makes us feel both the immediacy and the permanence of these texts, for "What is human in them speaks to what is human in us."

Author : Abigail Shinn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319965772

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Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England by Abigail Shinn Pdf

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers’ experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre’s relative stabilization in the 1650s. A cross confessional study analyzing work by both Protestant and Catholic writers, this book explores conversion’s relationship with reading; the links between conversion, eloquence, translation and trope; the conflation of spiritual movement with literal travel; and the use of the body as a site for spiritual knowledge and proof.

Author : United States. Office of Coal Utilization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Coal gasification
ISBN : UOM:39015004838705

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Coal Conversion Program by United States. Office of Coal Utilization Pdf

Author : H. G. Schlegel,J. Barnea
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483139128

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Microbial Energy Conversion by H. G. Schlegel,J. Barnea Pdf

Microbial Energy Conversion documents the proceedings of a seminar in Gottingen in October 1976. This book discusses the potential of microorganisms to use solar energy or convert biomass produced by solar energy in such a way that new microbial energy sources can supplement or partially replace conventional sources. This compilation reviews biomass production and elaborates on in detail the microbial processes that are involved in the conversion of the primary biomass—either freshly harvested or disposed of as waste—into energy sources that are similar to hydrogen, methane, propane, gasoline, Diesel oil, methanol, ethanol, or electricity. The microbial processes that contribute to the development of known energy resources, such as mining of low grade ores of copper, zinc, and uranium; reclamation of oil from oil shale; and recovery of conventional and heavy oil and gas, are also deliberated. This text likewise elaborates on the study of photosynthetic enzyme systems, hydrogenase, immobilization of enzymes and pigments on membranes, and construction of artificial photosynthetic units. This book is beneficial to students and researchers conducting work on microbial energy conversion.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Disarmament
ISBN : LOC:0000872328A

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The Conversion Research and Education Act of 1971, H.R. 34 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development Pdf

Author : United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Division of Policy Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Condominiums
ISBN : UOM:39015007257085

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The Conversion of Rental Housing to Condominiums and Cooperatives by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Division of Policy Studies Pdf

Author : Jaume Ortiz Forns,Daniel Alfonsea Romero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780969435

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Modelling a Fallschirmjäger Figure early Fallschirmjäger, 'Ready to jump' Operation Merkur, May 1941 by Jaume Ortiz Forns,Daniel Alfonsea Romero Pdf

This is one of four guides addressing the subject of modelling a German Fallschirmjäger figure model. The major items of Fallschirmjäger uniform and equipment are covered, with an emphasis on specially designed paratrooper items. Clear step-by-step instructions allow the reader to recreate realistic figures in miniture scale with confidence and ease. Among the tutorials covered in this guide are face painting, creating complex camouflage patterns, weathering clothing, and figure conversion techniques, as well as vignette and diorama settings for your figures (creating groundwork and balancing composition). This title provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling an early Fallschirmjäger, Operation Merkur, May 1941. It also provides a comprehensive list of available aftermarket products and kits of all scales. This guide forms part of Osprey Modelling 31 Modelling Fallschirmjäger Figures ebook.

Author : Holly Crawford Pickett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512825657

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The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England by Holly Crawford Pickett Pdf

In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical figures such as William Alabaster, Kenelm Digby, William Chillingworth, and Marc Antonio De Dominis, along with fictional ones, who changed their religious affiliations between Catholicism and Protestantism multiple times. Pickett argues that serial converts both reveal and helped revise early modern understandings of the self. Through investigation of the techniques that serial converts used to stage and justify their conversions, Pickett demonstrates the performative nature of the act of conversion itself, offering a counternarrative to the paradigm of sincere, private conversion that was on the rise in the tumultuous years following the Reformation. Drawing from archival investigation into the lives and works of serial converts and performance studies theory, this book shows how the genres and conventions associated with conversion shaped not only forms of communication but also the very experience of conversion. By juxtaposing plays about serial conversion—by Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare—with spiritual autobiographies, Pickett highlights the shared task of convert and playwright: performing conversion for an audience. Serial converts served as uncomfortable reminders to their contemporaries that religious identity is always unverifiable. The first study to explore serial conversion as a discrete phenomenon in this era, The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England challenges confessional divisions within much early modern historiography by analyzing the surprising convergence of Protestant and Catholic in the figure of the serial convert. It also reveals a neglected strain of religious discourse in early modern England that valued mutability and flexibility even in the midst of hardening and increasingly narrow understandings of conversion.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Apartment houses, Cooperative
ISBN : LOC:00091078430

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Condominium and Cooperative Conversion by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Saline water conversion
ISBN : MINN:30000010637019

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Saline Water Conversion Report for ... by Anonim Pdf