The articles explore individual religious transformation in Antiquity, with a focus on initiation and conversion and their definitions, content and characteristics. They investigate different facets of these phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Contents: Birgitte Bøgh: In Life and Death: Choice and Conversion in the Cult of Dionysos – Éric Rebillard: Becoming Christian in Carthage in the Age of Tertullian – Jan N. Bremmer: Conversion in the oldest Apocryphal Acts – Jakob Engberg: Human and Divine Agency in Conversion in Apologetic Writings of the Second Century: To «Dance with Angels» – Nicholas Marshall: Ontological Conversion: A Description and Analysis of Two Case Studies from Tertullian’s De Baptismo and Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis – Zeba Crook: Agents of Apostasy, Delegates of Disaffiliation – Carmen Cvetković: Change and Continuity: Reading Anew Augustine’s Conversion – Luther H. Martin: «The Devil is in the Details». Hellenistic Mystery Initiation Rites: Bridge-Burning or Bridge-Building? – Kate Cooper/James Corke-Webster: Conversion, Conflict, and the Drama of Social Reproduction: Narratives of Filial Resistance in Early Christianity and Modern Britain – Radcliffe G. Edmonds III: There and Back Again: Temporary Immortality in the Mithras Liturgy – Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Identity Formation through Catechetical Teaching in Early Christianity – Per Bilde: The Role of Religious Education in six of the Pagan Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Period – Roger Beck: Educating a Mithraist – Elisabetta Abate: Observations on Late Antique Rabbinic Sources on Instruction of Would-Be Converts – Tobias Georges: The Role of Philosophy and Education in Apologists’ Conversion to Christianity: The Case of Justin and Tatian.