Con
version and Initiation in Antiquity:
Shifting identities - creating change
Between AD 100 and AD 600, the Hellenistic-Roman world experienced radical transformations of religious identities, both of groups and individuals. The intimate relationship between conversion and initiation and the transformation of religious identity is our main motivation for focusing on these phenomena in the conference.
The intention is to bring together scholars from different academic disciplines in order to enlighten different aspects of conversion, initiation and religious identity within a comparative framework.
The conference is organized in the following sessions:
