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Carole M. Cusack.
The Rise of Christianity in Northern Europe, 300-1000.
Published London: Cassell, 1999
(previously issued in hardback under a different title Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples, 1998).
Series: Cassell Religious Studies.
ISBN 030470735X;
ISBN-13: 9780304707355.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd., Midsomer Norton.
Size: 153×234×17mm.
Page count: x,214pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused but shows evidence of extended storage: in particular the page edges are rather foxed, paper a bit yellowed with age; otherwise just the usual mild scuffs on the covers, etc.

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[Publisher’s price £80.00]
Weight without packaging: 347g.

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This book is a study of the process of Christian conversion among the Germanic peoples from the third to the eleventh centuries. The intention is twofold: first, to examine previous scholarship on conversion and to develop a model of conversion appropriate to the Germanic peoples; and second, to produce a comparative study of six Germanic conversions.

Chapter 1 reviews the existing models of conversion developed by scholars in a number of fields, principally psychology, anthropology and religious studies, and develops an alternative model. This model explores the cognitive and social structures of pre-Christian Germanic society, highlights the roles and motivations of the agents of mission and traditional secular and religious leaders, validates the spiritual dimension of corporate decision-making in religious transitions, and accounts for the indigenization of Christianity by the Germanic peoples. Chapters 2 to 7 are case studies which apply this model to the conversions of the Goths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, continental Saxons, Scandinavians, and Icelanders, revealing a fundamentally common process but with local variations. The final chapter presents the insights gained from the case studies.

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