Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule : Self, Otherness and Power in a Global Perspective (16th-19th Centuries) (Religion und Moderne)

Vulpius, RicardaEDT/ Wilde, GuillermoEDT

Campus Verlag（2026/07発売）

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Description

For centuries and across continents religious communities have shaped the ways in which individuals position themselves within their societies. While historians and anthropologists have increasingly focused on the phenomenon of religious conversion, studies on the relationship between conversion and imperial rule have remained sporadic and geographically isolated. To remedy this, the present volume adopts a global and comparative approach. Focusing on efforts to spread Christianity and responses from different faith communities, the authors engage in a debate that goes beyond specific confessions or imperial configurations. The case studies presented here powerfully illustrate the multidirectional nature of religious conversion practices. They demonstrate how local structures both enabled and limited the changes brought about by conversion. The volume also addresses notions of subjectivity within convert communities which shaped their reactions to imperial strategies. "Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule" thus illuminates the interplay between power, conversion, agency, and social transformation. Ricarda Vulpius is Professor of East European History and a Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster. She specialized in the history of the Russian Empire and the history of Ukraine and its entanglements in the 16th to 20th centuries.Ricarda Vulpius ist Professorin für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Mitglied des Exzellenzclusters Religion und Politik der Universität Münster. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die russländische Imperiumsgeschichte und die Geschichte der Ukraine und ihrer Verflechtungen im 16.-20. Jahrhundert. Guillermo Wilde is Professor of Anthropology and History of Latin America and Principal Investigator at the National Scientific Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He specializes in the Ethnohistory and the study of religious conversion in missionary contexts of the Iberian World.Guillermo Wilde ist Professor für Anthropologie und Geschichte Lateinamerikas und leitender Forscher am Nationalen Rat für wissenschaftliche Forschung Argentiniens (CONICET). Er ist spezialisiert auf Ethnohistorie und die Erforschung religiöser Konversion im missionarischen Kontext der iberischen Welt.