Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0375423753
ISBN 13
9780375423758
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2016
Publisher
Pages
512
Subject
Conversion -- History ; RELIGION / Psychology of Religion; Economic conditions ;
Abstract
From the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, a provocative social history of the secular forces driving conversion--for better and for worse--in the Western world, from the transformation of the Jewish Saul into Christianity's first proselytiser Paul to the twenty-first-century revival of violent religious coercion by radical Islamic terrorists. In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey
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