Conversion and initiation in antiquity
Subtitle: shifting identities, creating change
By: Birgitte Secher Bøgh, (ed.).
Contributors: Bøgh, Birgitte
Series: Early Christianity in the context of antiquity : -- volume 16
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9783631658512
Subjects: Conversion; Congresses; Initiation rites; Religious Psychology; Church history; Christianity and other religions; Greek; Roman; Religious education; History
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference held in Ebeltoft, Denmark, December 1st-4th, 2012, at Aarhus University.

Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: In life and death: choice and conversion in the cult of Dionysos; title: Becoming Christian in Carthage in the Age of Tertullian; title: Conversion in the oldest Apocryphal acts; title: Human and divine agency in conversion in apologetic writings of the second century: to dance with angels; title: Ontological conversion: a description and analysis of two case studies from Tertullian's de Baptismo and Iamblichus' De mysteriis; title: Agents of apostasy, delegates of disaffiliation; title: Change and continuity: reading anew Augustine's conversion; title: The devil is in the details' Hellenistic mystery initiation rites: bridge-burning or bridge-building?; title: Conversion, conflict, and the drama of social reproduction: narratives of filial resistance in early Christianity and modern Britain; title: There and back again: temporary immortality in the Mithras liturgy; title: Identity formation through catechetical teaching in early Christianity; title: The role of religious education in six of the pagan religions of the Hellenistic-Roman period; title: Educating a Mithraist; title: Observations on late antique rabbinic sources on instruction of would-be converts; title: The role of philosophy and education in apologists' conversion to Christianity: the case of Justin and Tatian.