IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1335: Crossing Religious Borders: Conversion, Syncretism, and Apostasy in the Medieval Period
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Lilian Regina Gonçalves Diniz, Dipartimento di Studi storici, geografici e antropologici, Università di Padova / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Caitlin Ellis, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1335-a | Conversion and Apostasy in the Visigothic Kingdom (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1335-b | Islamic Conversion?: Interrogating Religious Change to Islam from the Vantage of Archaeology (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life |
| Paper 1335-c | Religious Conversions and Crusading Siege Warfare in Syria and Jazīra, 1097-1192 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session will deal with the complex social, political, and cultural process of religious conversion. It is often a process that implies a subjective changing of a whole range of practices, social behaviours, and ways of seeing and interpreting life, and the way individuals relate to themselves, their community, and the world in general. We will discuss the topic of conversion using a variety of sources and relating to different religions. Our aim is to inspire reflection about the complexities of this process, its consequences, how the sources document it, and how we can interpret them in different ways. |