Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire

Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire

Deringil, Selim (Bogazici UEniversitesi, Istanbul)

Cambridge University Press

07/2015

302

Mole

Inglês

9781107546011

15 a 20 dias

Set in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire, this book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and processes of belonging played out in a multi-religious setting, when religious conversion was no longer the answer to political or personal survival.
Introduction; 1. 'Avoiding the imperial headache': conversion, apostasy and the Tanzimat state; 2. Conversion as diplomatic crisis; 3. 'Crypto-christianity'; 4. Career converts, migrant souls, and Ottoman citizenship; 5. Conversion as survival: mass conversions of Armenians in Anatolia, 1895-7; Conclusion.
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