7 sentences with “converts”

In both areas, rulers, Arab and North African immigrants, and new converts to Islam lived alongside those who remained Christian or Jewish.

In the case of China, the Jesuits did not succeed in making many converts, but they did bring back an enormous amount of information about China itself.

After developing his theology and winning many converts, Calvin colluded with the city council of Geneva to enforce a whole set of moral laws regulating almost every aspect of behaviour.

In 1562, Bishop Diego de Landa, fearing that the native converts had reverted to their traditional religious practices, collected and burned all the codices he could find. Today only a few survive.

In Medina, Muhammad was much more successful in winning converts. He quickly established a religious community with himself as leader, which made no distinction between religious and political authority.

These new churches won converts and competed with older Protestant groups such as the Anglicans (members of the Church of England), the Congregationalists (the heirs of Puritanism in America) and the Quakers.

However, what made it even more threatening than Judaism was that Christianity actively sought new converts (i.e. Christianity was intrinsically evangelical, in stark contrast to Judaism which did not seek new members). Thus, the Roman authorities were already inclined to suspect Christians as potential agitators.