This essay investigates the German ex-Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine Francis to writers poets in modernity. intense engagement was rooted Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re-conversion’, an austere form of Catholicism childhood 1920, just a few years after breaking with Dada movement he had helped found Zurich 1916. In letters, bo...