Religious Conversion

Introduction, Katznelson Ira, Rubin Miri; Chapter 1 Conversion of Space, Limor Ora; Chapter 2 Demography, Geography and the Accelerated Islamisation of the Eastern Mediterranean, Ellenblum Ronnie; Chapter 3 The Christianisation of Time in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopia, Kaplan Steven; Chapter 4 Church Space and Religious Change in Reformation Germany, Heal Bridget; Chapter 5 Changing Minds - Changing Bodies: The Gendered Subject of Conversion, Levinson Joshua; Chapter 6 Conversion and Masculinity in the Early Medieval West, Hen Yitzhak; Chapter 7 1I would like to thank my colleague at Canterbury, Maria Diemling, for her comments on the text and for her advice with the translation. The draft of this article has been finished at the end of 2009. Newly published literature has not been accounted for since then. Please note the following publications though: Rotraud Ries, Zwischenraeume - Orte, Worte und Wege von Konvertiten zwischen Judentum und Christentum, in Christoph Bultmann, Joerg Ruepke, Sabine Schmolinsky (eds), Religionen in Nachbarschaft. Pluralismus als Markenzeichen der europaeischen Religionsgeschichte (Muenster: Aschendorff Verlag 2012), 87-108; Annekathrin Helbig, Konversion, Kindheit und Jugend - Taufen judischer Kinder im 18. Jahrhundert, WerkstattGeschichte 63 (2013), 45-60; Michaela Schmoelz-Haeberlein, Juden in Bamberg (1633-1802/03). Lebensverhaeltnisse und Handlungsspielraeume einer staedtischen Minderheit (Wuerzburg: Ergon 2014) (Judentum - Christentum - Islam. Interreligioese Studien 11), 213-240., Ries Rotraud; Chapter 8 1This article is partly based on a paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Yale University, 18-20 March, 2010., Yisraeli Yosi; Chapter 9 1This article is based on a broad on-going research project which examines attitudes of Jews towards other Jews who had converted to Christianity. Its results will be published in Apostasy and Jewish Identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe: Are you still my brother? (Forthcoming 2015, Manchester University Press), Goldin Simha; Chapter 10 'Double Conversions' in the Early Modern Period: The Road to Religious Scepticism?, Heyd Michael;