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PROJECT FINAL REPORT

Conversions Book Series

Religions, Cultures, and Transformations in Early Modern Europe and its Worlds

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By Richard Hoffman Reinhardt

CRASSH - University of Cambridge

Religious Diversity and the Secular University Summer School 2019

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Early Modern Conversions Poster Collection

Posters available here

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Transforming the Voices of Montreal

Moyse Hall, McGill University October 22 8pm-October 27 2pm

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Shakespeare's Voice By David Schalkwyk

Queen Mary University of London - Tuesday, October 23rd, 4:30 The Colgate Room, 4th floor McLennan Library

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The Future of Conversion Studies

A Conference for Early-Career Scholars, Jan 25-26, McGill University

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Early Modern Conversions Project

McGill University 3610 McTavish St, Office 16-2 (1st Floor)

Montreal, QC H3A1Y2

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The ability to convert is uniquely human. When we awaken to a new faith, join a new political movement, or take on a new identity, we exercise our freedom to reinvent ourselves and also to become who we were always meant to be.

But what if conversion is really a leap into a false ideal, a con game, or something imposed on us by external forces?  We treasure the freedom to remake ourselves, but we are also troubled by our own changeability and impressionability. 

The Conversions project has brought together an international team of scholars and artists to study the first great Age of Conversion. From around 1400 to 1700, Europeans converted their religious, social, political, and even sexual identities—sometimes voluntarily, sometimes by force. 

People in the 21st century also live in a time of globalization and massive change that sees the uncontrolled growth of youth radicalization, conversion-centred violence, and a multi-billion-dollar personal transformation industry. 

The Conversions project brings historical scholarship and the creative arts to urgent questions that face us now as we enter the second great Age of Conversion.

   

 


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