Originally published in 1933, Conversion is a seminal study of the psychology and circumstances of conversion from about 500 B.C.E. to about 400 A.D. A.D. Nock not only discusses early Christianity and its converts, but also examines non-Christian religions and philosophy, the means by which they attracted adherents, and the factors influencing and limiting their success. Christianity succeeded, he argues, in part because it acquired and adapted those parts of other philosophies and religions that had a popular appeal.
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"A. D. Nock's Conversion and William James' Varieties of Religious Experience are the two most cited books in the field of conversion studies.
(Lewis R. Rambo, San Francisco Theological Seminary/Graduate Theological Union )"From the time when each petty State had its peculiar set of local deities down to the final triumph of the Catholic Church, [Nock] traces the history, and to some extent the psychology, of the processes by which religions were gradually syncretized and their minor differences canceled out.
(Odell Shepard New York Times )There has been so much loose writing and talking in recent times about the relation of the so-called mystery religions to Christianity that Professor Nock's erudite and sympathetic presentation of the points of likeness and unlikeness between them... is a very valuable contribution to the history of religion.
(Times Literary Supplement )The reader will find much to fascinate him in the author's development of this theme. With a sure hand he traces the ways by which Eastern religious ideas penetrated the West, following paths of trade, carried by soldiers from one end of the empire to the other, communicated by Oriental slaves to Roman masters.
(Campbell Bonner The Saturday Review of Literature )About the Author
Arthur Darby Nock (1902-1963) was the Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard University. He was for years one of the world's leading authorities on the religions of later antiquity. He is also the author of Early Gentile Christianity and Its Hellenistic Background and Essays on Religion and the Ancient World.
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MAN is born into a world in which there are some objects and processes which are to him fully comprehensible and others which are not. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Asia Minor, Dea Suria, Marcus Aurelius, Supreme Being, Justin Martyr, Old Testament, Roman Empire, The Idea of Conversion, Corpus Hermeticum, Dion of Prusa, Apollonius of Tyana, Catholic Church, Chaldaic Oracles, John the Baptist, Juppiter Dolichenus, Alexander of Abonutichus, Clement of Alexandria, Maximus of Tyre, Zeus Sarapis New!
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Asia Minor, Dea Suria, Marcus Aurelius, Supreme Being, Justin Martyr, Old Testament, Roman Empire, The Idea of Conversion, Corpus Hermeticum, Dion of Prusa, Apollonius of Tyana, Catholic Church, Chaldaic Oracles, John the Baptist, Juppiter Dolichenus, Alexander of Abonutichus, Clement of Alexandria, Maximus of Tyre, Zeus Sarapis New!
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- Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Book 20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 456) (Bk.XX v. 13) by Josephus on 4 pages
- Against Apion by Flavius Josephus on page 79, and page 123
- A History of Greek Religion by Martin Persson Nilsson in Back Matter
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 260
- The Cults of the Greek States Part One by Lewis Richard Farnell in Back Matter
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- Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, And Conversion In The Religions Of The Ancient Mediterranean (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die ... Und Die Kunde Der Alteren Kirche) by Zeba A. Crook on 6 pages
- From Death to Rebirth: Ritual and Conversion in Antiquity by Thomas M. Finn on 5 pages
- Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction by Luther H. Martin in Front Matter, page 29, and page 31
- The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation by James C. Russell on page 60, page 86, and Back Matter
- The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire by Prof. Michele Renee Salzman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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