caa a22 4500 386318883 CHVBK 20180307111618.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034193200020240 doi S0034193200020240 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034193200020240 Powell John Testimony in High Places: The Conversion of Bertram Wodehouse Currie [Elektronische Daten] [John Powell] The role of religion in history is an inherently difficult topic. Historians have rightly approached it with caution. Nevertheless, excessive caution has sometimes impaired our understanding of both individuals and broad historical developments. Ignoring personal religious experiences, especially when they have followed deliberate conversions, may be more dangerous to the truth than imperfectly assessing those experiences. I am not proposing an interdisciplinary approach, although that too is needed. Rather, I am suggesting that the religious experience of individuals be more fully incorporated, where possible, into traditional historical writings. It is in this spirit that I here examine the 1896 conversion, from agnosticism to Catholicism, of the influential London banker, Bertram Wodehouse Currie. Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1988 Recusant History Cambridge University Press 19/2(1988-10), 198-207 0034-1932 19:2<198 1988 19 BCH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200020240 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200020240 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Powell John NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Recusant History Cambridge University Press 19/2(1988-10), 198-207 0034-1932 19:2<198 1988 19 BCH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge