Buch, Englisch, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 936 g
Buch, Englisch, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 936 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-989298-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
non-Christians both metaphoric differences such as doctrinal differences and religious polemic and physical ones of war. She could also embody religious borderlands, the places of hybrid and fluid spiritual identities. The second half of the book looks at how the Virgin served as a place of passage where
religious lines could be crossed through conversion. The book considers Christian stories that depict Mary as a particularly effective agent in the conversion of Jews, Muslims, and natives of the Americas. The project also examines those Jews, Muslims, and Indians who converted to Christianity: the Virgin was a figure of power through whom they could express their new hybrid identities.