Download or read book Fictions of Conversion written by Jeffrey S. Shoulson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the act was overturned by his daughter Mary, only to be reinstated at the ascension of her half-sister Elizabeth. Buffeted by political and confessional cross-currents, the English discovered that conversion was by no means a finite, discrete process. In Fictions of Conversion, Jeffrey S. Shoulson argues that the vagaries of religious conversion were more readily negotiated when they were projected onto an alien identity—one of which the potential for transformation offered both promise and peril but which could be kept distinct from the emerging identity of Englishness: the Jew. Early modern Englishmen and -women would have recognized an uncannily familiar religious chameleon in the figure of the Jewish converso, whose economic, social, and political circumstances required religious conversion, conformity, or counterfeiting. Shoulson explores this distinctly English interest in the Jews who had been exiled from their midst nearly three hundred years earlier, contending that while Jews held out the tantalizing possibility of redemption through conversion, the trajectory of falling in and out of divine favor could be seen to anticipate the more recent trajectory of England's uncertain path of reformation. In translations such as the King James Bible and Chapman's Homer, dramas by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, and poetry by Donne, Vaughan, and Milton, conversion appears as a cypher for and catalyst of other transformations—translation, alchemy, and the suspect religious enthusiasm of the convert—that preoccupy early modern English cultures of change.
Download or read book Conversions written by Craig Harline and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of two families—one in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America today—and how they coped when a family member changed religions. This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the Reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive situations today. Craig Harline begins with the story of young Jacob Rolandus, the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, who converted to Catholicism in 1654 and ran away from home, causing his family to disown him. In the companion story, Michael Sunbloom, a young American, leaves his family’s religion in 1973 to convert to Mormonism, similarly upsetting his distraught parents. The modern twist to Michael’s story is his realization that he is gay, causing him to leave his new church, and upsetting his parents again—but this time the family reconciles. Recounting these stories in short, alternating chapters, Harline underscores the parallel aspects of the two far-flung families. Despite different outcomes and forms, their situations involve nearly identical dynamics and heart-wrenching choices. Through the author's deeply informed imagination, the experiences of a seventeenth-century European family are transformed into immediately recognizable terms. “A beautiful and moving book. Harline is a master at narrative and at making the most painstaking research look effortless.” —Carlos Eire, Yale University “An absorbing, creative book . . . it will definitely become a go-to book for readers interested in the history and psychology of conversion.” —Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God: A Memoir “An unexpected joy. . . . A compelling, insightful examination. . . . Conversions is a journey well worth taking.” —Gerald S. Argetsinger, Affirmation.org
Download or read book Converting Fiction written by David H. Darst and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the many ways in which seventeenth-century Spanish authors manipulated the expected outcomes of secular literature to create religiously motivated endings prompted by some kind of conversion. In the late sixteenth century, the prevalent technique was to transform the secular material entirely, a lo divino. After 1598, however, writers developed the ingenious procedure of ostensibly following a secular account of events but subverting it by inserting an unanticipated religious ending. The specific kinds of conversion at closure examined here are the appropriation of earlier genres; conversion of non-Christian literary types; personal conversion of the native Spaniard through the Catholic ritual of confession, penitence, and absolution; conversion of the nation's historical material; and conversion of the very landscape upon which Christians walk in their pilgrimage through life.
Download or read book The Fact of Conversion written by George Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Third Conversion written by R. Scott Rodin and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2 Point Conversion written by Mercy Celeste and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conversion written by Joseph Olshan and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident. But the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poet's unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own life.Hearing of the disturbing circumstances of Cannon's death, an Italian writer, Marina Vezzoli, invites Russell to recuperate at her villa in Tuscany. But what at first seems like a generous invitation slowly reveals itself to be a calculated offer. As Russell's stay in Italy lengthens, he begins to realize that the people in his life are using or manipulating him, most of all the poet's New York publishers who, against the dying poet's wishes, are trying to acquire his unfinished manuscript. Looming over everything is the long and fascinating legacy of Villa Guidi, where during Word War II a Jewish family hid in the subterranean floors, later undergoing a conversion to Catholicism. In an echo of this dramatic history, Russell is forced to undergo a conversion of his own in order to find redemption and meaning in his life.
Download or read book Crossover written by Alphonse Amalraj Viswasam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious conversion is the most studied aspect of religion by psychologists of religion, but there is still very little actual data available. We all tend to follow and practise the religion in which we are born. Converting a person to another religion is not as easy. A person has to feel that there is something fundamentally incorrect about their current religion. Conversion involves conscious decision making based on intellectual exploration or investigation and analysis. It is also based and founded on personal conviction or experience; Mind to analyse intellectually; Heart to believe and; The will to take decision and Follow the New found Faith. This book not only deals with reasons and factors of conversion, but has also included selected case histories of powerful testimony stories as given in the books authored by the most prominent Atheists, Hindus and Muslims, who themselves got converted to Christianity. It will be interesting to know their background history and how-why they got converted. Hope this book will not only be a great inspiration to Christians to strengthen their Faith but also motivate or encourage non-believers to believe and accept Jesus Christ as their only God and Saviour.
Download or read book Fictions of Conversion written by Jeffrey S. Shoulson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Conversion investigates the anxieties produced by the rapid and erratic religious, political, and cultural transformations in early modern England, which were often given shape in poetry, plays, and translations by the figure of the Jewish converso.
Download or read book Damned Beings The Conversion written by Eba Martín Muñoz and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-14 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic novel, dark fantasy In the first volume of the saga we met a whole gallery of supernatural characters fighting for their place in the world. We submerged in their fears and desires, in their vices and defects. We discovered their motivations: love, sex, power, acknowledgement..., but there were many mysteries left to discover. What happened for Eva to want to kill her childhood friend? Where is she hiding and why? What role, in the story of the protagonist, do characters like Leo and Alouqua play? How will the battle to the death between Ianire and Luna end? Most of these questions will be unveiled in this second volume. Though we can guess at what new mysteries and questions will open for us... Are you prepared for a new volume with more doses of horror, tenderness, magic, eroticism, tensión, humor and suspense?
Download or read book Conversion written by Mitchell Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrupted power stirs from beyond the grave.The Necromancer Queen will rise again.In Niyas, the new Seneschal plans to use Anskar to further the Church's aims and grind the Niyandrians and their culture to dust.But having thrown off the shackles of both the Church and his mother Queen Talia, Anskar is no longer a hapless pawn. Driven to seek the final component to complete the Armor of Divinity, he falls in with the Niyandrian rebels and forges his own path.But the grasp of the Necromancer Queen is not so easily evaded, and the dark-tide within Anskar forces him to travel to the demon realms, where he discovers a chilling secret long hidden from him.A secret which will either destroy Anskar or save Niyas?
Download or read book The Nun and the Doctor written by Richard P. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Sin to Salvation written by Virginia Lieson Brereton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... fascinating... " --Theological Book Review By examining women's conversion experiences, the author provides a corrective to the much popularized TV evangelism. She examines the stories U.S. women have told of their profound realization of their sinfulness and the necessity of turning to God's grace and love for forgiveness.
Download or read book 40 Fascinating Conversion Stories written by Samuel Fisk and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation relates the life-changing salvation experiences of believers such as D. L. Moody, John Bunyan, Dawson Trotman, and thirty-seven others.
Download or read book A Brief Conversion and Other Stories written by Earl Lovelace and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen vivid stories, award-winning author Earl Lovelace paints a compassionate, often humorous portrait of everyday life in Trinidad. Ordinary people like Victor the barber, Shoemaker Arnold, Miss Ross (once the most sought-after woman in Cunaripo), and Blues and Joebell (both eager to see new lands) are invested with the magic of their colorful, changing world.
Download or read book Conversion written by Katherine Howe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery? Prep meets The Crucible . It's senior year at St. Joan's Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys' texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can't. First it's the school's queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan's buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen?who's been reading The Crucible for extra credit?comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true events?from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school? Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what's really happening to the girls at St. Joan's?
Download or read book Miss Ravenel s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty written by John William De Forest and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lillie Ravenel is a teenage girl from Louisiana, brought to the north by her loyalist father at the outbreak of the American Civil War. She is pursued by two contrasting suitors. Captain Edward Colburne is a virtuous New Englander whose bland goodness makes him seem a perfect match for the uninspiring Miss Ravenel. Her second suitor, Colonel John Carter is a native Virginian, but loyal to the Union. Opposite to Colburne likes to drink and gamble, but he is a man of honor and an admirable military officer. Friendship with these men of the North brings the change in her belief, eventually converting her to the cause of the Union. She returns to New Orleans only to find herself shunned by her old circle of friends for having too many associations with the enemy. Civil War battles that Lillie's suitors go through are described as a bloody and inglorious hell.
