Intersectionality & Conversion with Dr. Valérie Nicolet and Prof. Marianne Kartzow (Podcast)

In this episode we’re talking about Intersectionality and Conversion with Dr. Valérie Nicolet and Prof. Marianne Kartzow. Dr. Nicolet is Associate Professor of New Testament at Institut Protestant de Théologie, Faculté de Paris, and Prof. Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo. They are co-editors of the book we discuss in this episode, The Complexity of Conversion: Intersectional Perspectives on Religious Change in Antiquity and Beyond (published by Equinox). In this conversation Dr. Nicolet and Prof. Kartzow talk to us about the difficulties with the term “conversion” as category for describing religious experience in antiquity. One particular area of difficulty includes one of the ways in which the nuances of the lives of the “converts” are often flattened out including their gender, race, ethnicity, status, age, ability, etc. For this reason, they draw upon intersectional approaches that highlight the complexities involved in order to arrive at a rich understanding of religious change of various sorts. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities include: Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Dr. Grace Emmett, and Dr. Logan Williams.

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