Christian Conversions

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christian converts
ISBN : 9780195320923

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A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling Pdf

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : H V Seshadri
Publisher : Rashtrotthana sahitya
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Implications of Christian Conversions by H V Seshadri Pdf

Implications of Christian Conversions As Exposed by Judicial Commissions and other Reports Author: H.V. Seshadri

Author : Kevin E. Martin,Robert Michael Lewis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666728750

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The Three Conversions of the Christian Life by Kevin E. Martin,Robert Michael Lewis Pdf

Christianity is a religion of conversion, but what is conversion? This book explores the fullness of the Christian life and the threefold turnings that it demands of Jesus' followers. Starting with St. Paul while looking in detail at his Damascus Road experience and examining the remarkable lives of exemplary Christians, the authors unfold dynamics of conversion and call all followers to grow deeper in their discipleship.

Author : N. Marzouki,O. Roy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137004895

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Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World by N. Marzouki,O. Roy Pdf

While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and social relations. Through studies of conversions across the region this book examines the challenges that conversions represent for national, legal and policy ways of dealing with religious minorities.

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199910922

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A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling Pdf

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520078365

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Conversion to Christianity by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

Author : Délio de Mendonça
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 817022960X

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Conversions and Citizenry by Délio de Mendonça Pdf

Author : Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199713547

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion by Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.

Author : Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815652205

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Cultural Conversions by Heather J. Sharkey Pdf

The essays in this volume study cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both Catholic and Protestant missionaries effected changes that often went beyond what they had intended, sometimes backfiring against the missions. These changes entailed wrenching political struggles to redefine families, communities, and lines of authority. This volume’s contributors examine the meanings of "conversion" for individuals and communities in light of loyalties and cultural traditions, and consider how conversion, as a process, was often ambiguous. The history of Christian missions emerges from these pages as an integral part of world history that has stretched beyond professing Christians to affect the lives of peoples who have consciously rejected or remained largely unaware of missionary appeals.

Author : C.S. Lewis
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479441983

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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Pdf

A revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books "Broadcast Talks," "Christian Behaviour," and "Beyond Personality" by the acclaimed author of "The Chronicles of Narnia."

Author : Tijana Krstic
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804773171

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Contested Conversions to Islam by Tijana Krstic Pdf

This book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.

Author : Hugh Thomson Kerr,John M. Mulder
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802840655

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Famous Conversions by Hugh Thomson Kerr,John M. Mulder Pdf

A collection of fifty first-person conversion accounts spanning Christian history from the Apostle Paul to St. Augustine to Malcolm Muggeridge and Charles Colson. The selections, intended to be representative rather than exhaustive, are each prefaced with brief comment by the editors.

Author : Tanya Erzen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0520245814

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Straight to Jesus by Tanya Erzen Pdf

"Erzen is sensitive, savvy, and provocative. Her mastery of historical sources, ethnographic technique, and accessible writing style are evident throughout. She illuminates aspects of conservative Christianity central to the 'culture wars,' deepening our understanding of the movement's internal struggles over sexuality, gender, and family issues. Erzen has written a wonderful book."--Diane Winston, author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army "Tanya Erzen's wonderful and timely book provides us with a compelling cultural history of the Christian right in the post-war period--from the cold war to family and sexual politics--as well as remarkable ethnographic insight into the dynamics of Exodus International. With compassion, humor, and insight, Erzen takes the reader through the ideological, organizational, and daily practices used in efforts to change people's theological and sexual orientations, from self-help to conversion testimony."--Faye Ginsburg, Professor of Anthropology, New York University, author of Contested Lives

Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108477031

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Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama by Lieke Stelling Pdf

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Author : Sumit Sarkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christian converts from Hinduism
ISBN : UOM:39015067735020

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Christian Conversions by Sumit Sarkar Pdf