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Title |
Title of document |
Conversion in Mystery Religions? Theory Meets Mysteries and Conversion - The Complexity of Conversion |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Gerhard Van Den Heever; University of South Africa |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious studies |
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Keyword(s) |
religious conversion; religion in antiquity; intersectionality; narratives of conversion; reception of conversion; Hebrew Bible; second Temple Judaism; Church Fathers; sacred texts |
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Subject classification |
ancient history; ancient religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
This essay significantly redescribes and retheorizes mystery religions, religion, and conversion. The concepts of conversion and mystery religions are problematized through redescriptive theorizing of religion. Focusing on Apuleius/Lucius’s ‘conversion’ in The Golden Ass, and the cases of Late Roman aristocrats’ initiations into mysteries, this essay argues that ‘conversion’ is not an applicable term to use for entry into mystery cult group membership; and second, that perhaps it is best to abandon the term conversion, even for Christianity and Judaism. What is conventionally thought to be indicated by ‘conversion,’ are normal processes of social formation and identity maintenance. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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06-Oct-2021 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/40234 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.40234 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Complexity of Conversion |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
ancient world |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |