Berend, Nora (2024) The Christianisation of the Kingdom of Hungary. In: Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, pp. 137-164.
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Religious change impacting on whole societies has been analysed by many scholars, using different terminology. Some favour the term “conversion” for the entire process of social transformation linked to religious change, while others differentiate between conversion as an individual, personal experience on the one hand, accepting baptism and espousing a set of beliefs and practices in order to become a Christian, and social processes on the other hand. The latter can be designated by a number of different terms, one of which is “Christianisation.” These social processes entailed many transformations, not merely a change of religious beliefs and practices, but the creation of a new infrastructure of buildings and territorial subdivisions, changes in key areas such as literacy or rulership, and a reshaping of everyday existence and even intimate spheres of life, such as the foods one could eat and marriage. For medieval Hungary, as in many other premodern cases, we know almost nothing about individual conversions, the motives, experiences and self-fashioning of converts, whereas we are able to analyse the process of Christianisation.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | social transformation |
| Subjects: | A Church/mission history B Mission theology/theory > Conversion B Mission theology/theory > Social Justice/Mission as Justice and transformation |
| Divisions: | Central Europe > Hungary |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2026 07:51 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2026 07:51 |
| URI: | https://ceamol.osims.org/id/eprint/3257 |
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