Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

by Susan Jacoby

Book Overview

In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century "religious marketplace" in which half of Americans have changed faiths at least once, nothing has been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375423753
• ISBN13: 9780375423758
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"