Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place in Europe and Asia in the ninth to eleventh centuries. Focusing on Christianity and Islam, it contrasts religious conversion in the period with earlier conversions, including those of Manichaeism in central Asia;

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-03
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031344312

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Tsvetelin Stepanov is Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria.Osman Karatay is Professor in History at the Ege University in Izmir, Turkey.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction - Tsvetelin Stepanov and Osman Karatay .- 2. Approaching Salvation: Early Process of Christianisation in Viking-Age Denmark and Sweden - Władysław Duczko .- 3. The Christianisations in Scandinavia - Henrik Janson .- 4. Bruno of Querfurt and the Practice of Mission - Ian Wood .- 5. Who Converted the Poles? - Przemysław Urbańczyk - 6. Great Moravia: The Uneasy Beginnings of Slavic Christendom - Alexandar Nikolov .- 7. The Christianisation of the Kingdom of Hungary - Nora Berend .- 8. Choice of Faith in Early Medieval Eastern Europe: Individual and Mass Conversion - Vladimir Petrukhin - 9. The Times of St. Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (852-889; † 907): Between the Real Historical Facts of the Ninth Century and the 'Facts' of Selective Memory - Tsvetelin Stepanov .- 10. The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars to Islam - István Zimonyi .- 11. Islamization of the Turks: A Process of Mental Change - Osman Karatay .- 12. Establishment of Islam in Central Asia: Geo-Cultural Patterns and Geographical Realities - Erkan Göksu .- 13. Islam in India: Acceleration under the Ghaznavids (10th–11th Centuries) - M. Hanefi Palabıyık .- 14. Postscript: Conversion as History - Vladimir Gradev.