Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World

Benoit Fliche, French Institute of Anatolian Studies, TurkeyFatiha Kaoues, sociologist Loïc Le Pape, Centre Norbert Elias (EHESS - Marseille) and IREMAM (CNRS - Aix-en-Provence), FranceNadia Marzouki, European University Institute, in the ReligioWest ProgrammeAurélien Mokoko Gampiot, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (GSRL), FranceJulie Picard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceOlivier Roy (1949) French National Centre for Scientific Research (since 1985) and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceDon Seeman, Emory University, USAHeather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania, USAChrystal Vanel, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Nadia Marzouki 1. Evangelicals in the Arab world: the Example of Lebanon; Fatiha Kaoues 2. Purifying the Soul and Healing the Nation, Conversions to Evangelical Protestantism in Algeria; Nadia Marzouki 3. Religious Mobilities in the City: African Migrants and New Christendom in Cairo; Julie Picard 4. Pentecostal Judaism and Ethiopian-Israelis; Don Seeman 5. Ambiguous Conversions: The Selective Adaptation of Religious Cultures in Colonial North Africa; Heather J. Sharkey 6. Converts at work: Confessing a conversion; Loïc Le Pape 7. Being a Black Convert to Judaism in France; Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot 8. Converting to 'Mormonisms' in France: a Conversion both Religious and Cultural?; Chrystal Vanel 9. Participating Without Converting, the Case of Muslims Attending St. Anthony's Church in Istanbul; Benoît Fliche Conclusion; Olivier Roy Index