Conversion and initiation in antiquity shifting identities - creating change - Bøgh, Birgitte; Conference Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity Ebeltoft 12.2012 (Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang, 2014)
In life and death: choice and conversion in the cult of Dionysos -- Becoming Christian in Carthage in the Age of Tertullian -- Conversion in the oldest Apocryphal acts -- Human and divine agency in conversion in apologetic writings of the second century: to dance with angels -- Ontological conversion: a description and analysis of two case studies from Tertullian's de Baptismo and Iamblichus' De mysteriis -- Agents of apostasy, delegates of disaffiliation -- Change and continuity: reading anew Augustine's conversion -- The devil is in the details' Hellenistic mystery initiation rites: bridge-burning or bridge-building? -- Conversion, conflict, and the drama of social reproduction: narratives of filial resistance in early Christianity and modern Britain -- There and back again: temporary immortality in the Mithras liturgy -- Identity formation through catechetical teaching in early Christianity -- The role of religious education in six of the pagan religions of the Hellenistic-Roman period -- Educating a Mithraist -- Observations on late antique rabbinic sources on instruction of would-be converts -- The role of philosophy and education in apologists' conversion to Christianity: the case of Justin and Tatian.
Papers originally presented at a conference held in Ebeltoft, Denmark, December 1st-4th, 2012, at Aarhus University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Conversion -- Congresses; Initiation rites -- Religious aspects -- Congresses; Psychology, Religious -- Congresses; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses; Christianity and other religions -- Greek -- Congresses; Christianity and other religions -- Roman -- Congresses; Religious education -- History -- Congresses; 27 <063> -- Kerkgeschiedenis--Congressen; Conferences - Meetings