Explores mass conversions to Christianity and Islam in the Central Middle Ages

Compares conversions in the period to earlier medieval examples

Adopts a comparative framework and approaches a transnational outlook

1. Introduction - Tsvetelin Stepanov and Osman Karatay .- 2. Approaching Salvation: Early Process of Christianisation in Viking-Age Denmark and Sweden - W¿adys¿aw Duczko .- 3. The Christianisations in Scandinavia - Henrik Janson .- 4. Bruno of Querfurt and the Practice of Mission - Ian Wood .- 5. Who Converted the Poles? - Przemys¿aw Urbäczyk - 6. Great Moravia: The Uneasy Beginnings of Slavic Christendom - Alexandar Nikolov .- 7. The Christianisation of the Kingdom of Hungary - Nora Berend .- 8. Choice of Faith in Early Medieval Eastern Europe: Individual and Mass Conversion - Vladimir Petrukhin - 9. The Times of St. Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (852-889; ¿ 907): Between the Real Historical Facts of the Ninth Century and the 'Facts' of Selective Memory - Tsvetelin Stepanov .- 10. The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars to Islam - István Zimonyi .- 11. Islamization of the Turks: A Process of Mental Change - Osman Karatay .- 12. Establishment of Islam in Central Asia: Geo-Cultural Patterns and Geographical Realities - Erkan Göksu .- 13. Islam in India: Acceleration under the Ghaznavids (10th-11th Centuries) - M. Hanefi Palab¿y¿k .- 14. Postscript: Conversion as History - Vladimir Gradev.