Religious Conversion: History, Experience and Meaning Hardcover - 2014

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University, New York. Primarily an Americanist, his work has straddled comparative politics and political theory as well as political and social history. He is President of the Social Science Research Council, and was President of the American Political Science Association for 2005-2006. Previously, he served as President of the Social Science History Association and Chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. His most recent books are 'Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time' (2013), 'Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns' (with Andreas Kalyvas) (2008), and 'When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America' (2006). Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and Head of the School of History, at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research has ranged across the period 1100-1600, introducing fresh approaches to the study of social relations in the predominantly religious cultures of medieval Europe. Her publications include: 'Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge (1987); 'Corpus Christi: the Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture' (1991) and 'Gentile Tales; the Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews' (1999; repr. 2004).