Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity: Shifting Identities Creating Change
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For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity (Ebeltoft, Denmark, December 2012) – aim to nuance this understanding. They do so by exploring different facets of these two phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives. The result is a compilation of many new insights into ancient initiation and conversion as well as their definitions and characteristics. Abbreviations ............................................................................................ 7 Introduction .............................................................................................. 9 Theme 1. The choice: reasons, motivations, and results. Birgitte Bøgh In Life and Death: Choice and Conversion in the Cult of Dionysos ......... 25 Éric Rebillard Becoming Christian in Carthage in the Age of Tertullian ......................... 47 Jan N. Bremmer Conversion in the oldest Apocryphal Acts ............................................... 59 Theme 2. Agency and agents: The context of decision. Jakob Engberg Human and Divine Agency in Conversion in Apologetic Writings of the Second Century: To “Dance with Angels”....................... 77 Nicholas Marshall Ontological Conversion: A Description and Analysis of Two Case Studies from Tertullian’s De Baptismo and Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis .......101 Zeba Crook Agents of Apostasy, Delegates of Disaffiliation...................................... 119 Theme 3. The change: the nature of reorientation. Carmen Cvetković Change and Continuity: Reading Anew Augustine’s Conversion ........... 135 Luther H. Martin ‘The Devil is in the Details’. Hellenistic Mystery Initiation Rites: Bridge-Burning or Bridge-Building? ............................................. 153 Kate Cooper and James Corke-Webster Conversion, Conflict, and the Drama of Social Reproduction: Narratives of Filial Resistance in Early Christianity and Modern Britain ............................................................................... 169 Radcliffe G. Edmonds III There and Back Again: Temporary Immortality in the Mithras Liturgy ............................................................................... 185 Theme 4. Education: instructing and guiding the convert. Anders-Christian Jacobsen Identity Formation through Catechetical Teaching in Early Christianity .................................................................................. 203 Per Bilde The Role of Religious Education in six of the Pagan Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Period ........................................... 225 Roger Beck Educating a Mithraist ............................................................................ 247 Elisabetta Abate Observations on Late Antique Rabbinic Sources on Instruction of Would-Be Converts .................................................... 257 Tobias Georges The Role of Philosophy and Education in Apologists’ Conversion to Christianity: The Case of Justin and Tatian ....................................... 271 General Index ........................................................................................ 287 Index Locorum ...................................................................................... 301
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