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Author : H V Seshadri
Publisher : Rashtrotthana sahitya
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Implications of Christian Conversions As Exposed by Judicial Commissions and other Reports Author: H.V. Seshadri
Author : Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815652205
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 : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520078365
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 : Richard N. Longenecker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467428392
Conversion is intrinsic to the Christian religion. The most remarkable conversion recorded in the New Testament is that of Paul, and most Christians consider Christ's encounter with Paul to be a prototype of Christian conversion generally. This collection of eleven essays gives Paul's conversion a firmer rootage in the biblical materials while also emphasizing personal application. The contributors examine the nature of Paul's Damascus Road experience and the impact of that experience on his thought and ministry, and explore how Paul's experience functions as a paradigm for Christian thought and action today. Contributors: Bruce Corley, Terence L. Donaldson, James D. G. Dunn, Gordon D. Fee, Judith M. Gundry-Volf, G. Walter Hansen, Seyoon Kim, Bruce W. Longenecker, Richard N. Longenecker, I. Howard Marshall, Stephen Westerholm.
Author : Darren Carlson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004443464
In Christianity and Conversion among Migrants, Darren Carlson explores the faith, beliefs, and practices of migrants and refugees as well as the Christian organizations serving them between 2014–2018 in Athens, Greece.
Author : Donald L. Gelpi
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809137968
Using reflections, exercises, and suggestions for prayer and group sharing, this practical book explores five forms of conversion, the seven dynamics that structure the process and the significance for conversion of sacramental worship.
Author : Lewis Ray Rambo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300065159
Looking at a wide variety of religions, this work offers an exploration of religious conversion. The phenomena is approached from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, theology and anthropology.
Author : Sundararaj Manickam
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015000574361
Author : Lincoln A. Mullen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674983144
The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions more often than any other nation. Lincoln Mullen traces the history of the distinctively American idea that religion is a matter of individual choice.
Author : Damon Lee
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781613796917
From the moment of creation, we have always wondered about the world around us. We have always had this longing in our hearts as our eyes drifted upward, towards a vast heaven where we so longed to journey to. We then created a means to discover the world and devised various concepts, ideologies and systems of beliefs based on our observations and interactions. We have built schools of thought and pursue intellectual and spiritual endeavors to find our place among creation. That which we have built however has turned against us. It clouds our view of heaven for worldly treasures. It distracts us with its promise of purpose and leads us down the road to isolation and solitude as we desperately scream for release. We feel stuck, unsure of ourselves and we have lost sight of our true purpose. Let us reclaim our destiny and journey toward the Conversion of the mind and of the body.
Author : Rebecca Samuel Shah,Joel Carpenter
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506447926
Christianity has been present in India since at least the third century, but the faith remains a small minority. Even so, Christianity is growing rapidly in parts of the subcontinent, and has made an impact far beyond its numbers. Yet Indian Christianity remains highly controversial, and it has suffered growing discrimination and violence. This book shows how Christian converts and communities continue to make contributions to Indian society, even amid social pressure and violent persecution. In a time of controversy in India about the legitimacy of conversion and the value of religious diversity, Christianity in India addresses the complex issues of faith, identity, caste, and culture. It documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights, providing education and healthcare, fighting injustice and exploitation, and stimulating economic uplift for the poor. Readers will come away surprised and sobered to learn how these active initiatives often invite persecution today. The essays draw on intimate and personal encounters with Christians in India, past and present, and address the challenges of religious freedom in contemporary India.
Author : A. Sue Russell
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 076181440X
The introduction of Christianity into traditional societies has been the subject of numerous studies. Few of these studies, however, have adequately examined the way that this introduction affects power relationships in a community. In this, the third volume in the American Society of Missiology's dissertation series, A. Sue Russell attempts to advance the discourse on Christianity and social change by showing how a new social institution, the local church, both influences and is influenced by existing sociocultural power relationships. Building on her extensive research into the Tagal Murut, Dr. Russell clearly demonstrates that the introduction of Christianity created a dynamic that produced new social relations and power structures in Tagal society. With its unique insights into this crucial dynamic, Conversion, Identity, and Power stands as an important contribution to the sociological and missiological literature exploring the impact of Christianity on traditional societies. Book jacket.
Author : Chinyere Felicia Priest
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839730115
Often considered a Christian heartland in Nigeria, Igboland has recently seen a dramatic increase in Igbo Christians converting to Islam. Yet, despite this rapid change, there has been minimal research into the growth of Islam in the area and the implications this has for Christianity in the region. Addressing this need, Dr Chinyere Felicia Priest provides a detailed exploration of Igbo converts’ reasons for conversion through skilful analysis of in-depth ethnographic interviews with thirty converts, considering their social, religious, and familial backgrounds. This unique study sheds much-needed light on the role of intellectual factors in the conversion experiences of many newly Muslim Igbos and challenges previous ideas of monetary and social influences as primary motivations for conversion. As a result of her examination of these conversion experiences, Dr Priest calls for serious intellectual engagement of biblical doctrine within the Igbo church and highlights the need for ministers and missiologists to better disciple and equip Christians to adequately engage with Muslim objections to the gospel and give a reasoned defence of their faith. The vulnerability of many Igbo Christians will continue to result in converts to Islam unless the church heeds the lessons learned from this research and outlined in this book.
Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199717590
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 : Hugh Thomson Kerr,John M. Mulder
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802840655
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.
