Strange Gods
Subtitle: A Secular History of Conversion
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780375423758
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: A Note on Language
pagenum: ix; title: Prologue
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; label: I
title: Young Christendom and the Fading Pagan Gods; label: 1
title: Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The Way, the Truth, the Life, and Empire
pagenum: 30; label: 3
title: Coercion, Conversion, and Heresy
pagenum: 56; label: II
title: From Convivencia to the Stake; label: 4
title: Bishop Paul of Burgos (c. 1352-1435)
pagenum: 71; label: 5
title: Impureza de Sangre: The Crumbling of the Convivencia
pagenum: 87; label: 6
title: The Inquisition and the End
pagenum: 99; label: III
title: Reformations; label: 7
title: John Dunne (1572-1631)
pagenum: 115; label: 8
title: "Not with Sword...but with Printing"
pagenum: 134; label: 9
title: Persecution in an Age of Religious Conversion
pagenum: 146; label: IV
title: Conversions in the Dawn of the Enlightenment; label: 10
title: Margaret Fell (1614-1702): Woman's Mind, Woman's Voice
pagenum: 163; label: 11
title: Religious Choice and Early Enlightenment Thought
pagenum: 178; label: 12
title: Miracles Versus Evidence: Conversion and Science
pagenum: 196; label: 13
title: Prelude: O My America!
pagenum: 209; label: V
title: The Jewish Conversion Question: Where Christianity Stumped Its Toe; label: 14
title: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856): Convictionless Conversion
pagenum: 239; label: 15
title: The Varieties of Coercive Experience
pagenum: 260; label: 16
title: Edith Stein (1891-1942): The Sainthood of a Converted Jew
pagenum: 227; label: VI
title: American Exceptionalism: Toward Religious Choice as a Natural Right; label: 17
title: Peter Cartwright (1795-1872): Anti-Intellectualism and the Battle for Reason
pagenum: 297; label: 18
title: Remaking the Protestant American Compact
pagenum: 317; title: Interregnum: Absolutism and Its Discontents; label: 19
title: True Believers
pagenum: 337; label: VII
title: The Way We Live Now; label: 20
title: "The Greatest": Muhammad Ali and the Demythologizing Decade
pagenum: 359; label: 21
title: American Dreaming
pagenum: 379; title: Conclusion: Darkness Visible
pagenum: 394; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 417; title: Notes
pagenum: 419; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 433; title: Index
pagenum: 439