Augustine, a teenager studying in Carthage in the 370s, begins to ponder what he will one day consider the inevitable shortcomings of human philosophy ungrounded in the word of God.
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Strange Gods
A Secular History of Conversion
by Susan Jacoby
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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
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Table of Contents
Contents
Page vii
A Note on Language
Page ix
Prologue
Page xi
Introduction
Page xiii
I.
Young Christendom and the Fading Pagan Gods
1.
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Page 3
2.
The Way, the Truth, the Life, and Empire
Page 30
3.
Coercion, Conversion, and Heresy
Page 56
II.
From Convivencia to the Stake
4.
Bishop Paul of Burgos (c. 1352-1435)
Page 71
5.
Impureza de Sangre: The Crumbling of the Convivencia
Page 87
6.
The Inquisition and the End
Page 99
III.
Reformations
7.
John Dunne (1572-1631)
Page 115
8.
"Not with Sword...but with Printing"
Page 134
9.
Persecution in an Age of Religious Conversion
Page 146
IV.
Conversions in the Dawn of the Enlightenment
10.
Margaret Fell (1614-1702): Woman's Mind, Woman's Voice
Page 163
11.
Religious Choice and Early Enlightenment Thought
Page 178
12.
Miracles Versus Evidence: Conversion and Science
Page 196
13.
Prelude: O My America!
Page 209
V.
The Jewish Conversion Question: Where Christianity Stumped Its Toe
14.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856): Convictionless Conversion
Page 239
15.
The Varieties of Coercive Experience
Page 260
16.
Edith Stein (1891-1942): The Sainthood of a Converted Jew
Page 227
VI.
American Exceptionalism: Toward Religious Choice as a Natural Right
17.
Peter Cartwright (1795-1872): Anti-Intellectualism and the Battle for Reason
Page 297
18.
Remaking the Protestant American Compact
Page 317
Interregnum: Absolutism and Its Discontents
19.
True Believers
Page 337
VII.
The Way We Live Now
20.
"The Greatest": Muhammad Ali and the Demythologizing Decade
Page 359
21.
American Dreaming
Page 379
Conclusion: Darkness Visible
Page 394
Acknowledgments
Page 417
Notes
Page 419
Selected Bibliography
Page 433
Index
Page 439
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