Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800-1100

This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place inEurope and Asiain the ninth to eleventh centuries. Taking a comparative perspective, contributors explore the processes at work in these conversions. Focusing on Christianity and Islam, it contrasts religious conversion in the period with earlier conversions, including thoseof Manichaeism incentral Asia; Buddhism in east Asia; andJudaisminKhazaria, exploring why conversions to Christianity and Islam led to centralized political structures.