The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: to Christianity at its start, and to Islam at the other end. Challenging the opposition between the two stereotypes of Islamic conversion as an intrinsically violent process, and Christian conversion as a fundamentally spiritual one, the papers seek to isolate the behaviours and circumstances that made conversion both such a common and such a contested phenomenon. The spread of Buddhism in Asia in broadly the same period serves as an external comparator that was not caught in the net of the Abrahamic religions. The volume is organised around several themes, reflecting the concerns of the initial project with the articulation between norm and practice, the role of authorities and institutions, and the social and individual fluidity on the ground. Debates, discussions, and the expression of norms and principles about conversion conversion are not rare in societies experiencing religious change, and the first section of the book examines some of the main issues brought up by surviving sources. This is followed by three sections examining different aspects of how those principles were - or were not - put into practice: how conversion was handled by the state, how it was continuously redefined by individual ambivalence and cultural fluidity, and how it was enshrined through different forms of institutionalization. Finally, a topographical coda examines the effects of religious change on the iconic holy city of Jerusalem.
This book is a compilation of research works on electrochemistry in the broadest of its meanings, carried out by Spanish and Portuguese researchers around 2019. It aims to collect the most significant of our research and to show the excellent level that these works have in comparison with the international state of the art. The selection of works, in an extended abstract format, is based on the papers presented as invited plenary conferences and keynote oral communications at the XL Meeting of the Specialized Electrochemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and the XX Iberian Electrochemistry Meeting, which took place in the city of Huelva (Spain) between 9th and 12th July 2019. In an attempt to cover the work of Iberian electrochemists in the most complete and representative way possible, several invited chapters have been added to this set of works. On some occasions, the authors have reported on potential legal problems regarding the publication rights of their work, mainly due to the high interest in their results and the fact that they had already been submitted to very high impact journals for publication. In this case, they have been allowed to replace their original work by a mini review of their laboratory's line of research, keeping as much as possible the same research topic.
A portrait of history’s first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire broke down in western Europe, its prosperity moved decisively eastward, to what is now known as the Byzantine Empire. Here was born history’s first truly affluent, multifaceted Christian society. One of the ideals used to unite the diverse millions of people living in this vast realm was the Christianized ideal of philanthrōpia. In this sweeping cultural and social history, Daniel Caner shows how philanthropy required living up to Jesus’s injunction to “Give to all who ask of you,” by offering mercy and/or material aid to every human being, regardless of their origin or status. Caner shows how Christian philanthropy became articulated through distinct religious ideals of giving that helped define proper social relations among the rich, the poor, and “the pure” (Christian holy people), resulting in new and enduring social expectations. In tracking the evolution of Christian giving over three centuries, he brings to the fore the concerns of the peoples of Early Byzantium, from the countryside to the lower levels of urban society to the imperial elites, as well as the hierarchical relationships that arose among them. The Rich and the Pure offers nothing less than a portrait of the whole of early Byzantine society.
(Meredith Music Resource). Arranged for xylophone solo(s) and band, this exciting feature spotlights one or more keyboard percussionists in front of the band.
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