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Author : Virgil Bailey Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015004912518
Author : Massimo Leone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134402465
The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity, the anxiety of destabilization, the reconstitution of the self and the discovery of a new language of the soul.
Author : David Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317691723
Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation exploring significant questions concerning why people convert and what happens when they do so. A crisis of identity occurs when religious conversion takes place, especially from one major religious tradition (Islam) to another (Christianity); and where religious identity is intimately connected to ethnic and national identity. Radford argues for the importance of recognising the socially constructed nature of identity involving the dynamic interplay between human agency, culture and social networks. Kyrgyz Christians have been active agents in bringing religious and identity transformation building upon the contextual parameters in which they are situated.
Author : Josepha Mariyānusa Kujūra
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 9389676215
Set in the theoretical perspective of religious conversion in general, and that of tribal identity of Christians in particular, this volume brings out the complexities of the triangular relationship among tribal Christians, tribal Sarnās, and others. Based on historical records, some rare archival materials of the Church, oral traditions of the Urāoñ Adivasi community as well as fieldwork data, Religion, Conversion and Identity explores the dialectics between the old and the new. It presents insights derived from the processes of Indianization, indigenization and tribalization in the Church from the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and also addresses issues of ethnic and minority studies with a focus on identity formation and articulation.
Author : Sebastian C. H. Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 0195677129
'Very few books have...discussed [religious conversion]in a pan-Indian context...This book both promises and delivers this very perspective... a landmark in studies on conversion...' -- Seminar'The vital importance of this timely and extremely well-written book cannot be stressed enough...Kim offers us a sober, carefully researched and painstakingly documented book on the emergence of the conversion issue during the last one hundred and fifty years in pre- and post-independentIndia...[T]he book...offers us a fine basis to continue the exploration of conversion and its discontents.' -- The book Review'Kim seeks to reveal arguments for and against conversions, wherein lies the appeal of his book... By highlighting contesting philosophies, Kim focuses on crucial conversion issues.' -- Hindustan Times'...Kim's work...prove[s] to be a handy reference both for policy-makers and scholars.' -- The TelegraphThis important volume examines the major arg uments on conversion between Hindus and Christians, and also among Christian theologians in both pre- and post-Independence India. It reveals and interprets the arguments for and against conversion and seeks to understand them within a historical andcontemporary perspective.Engaging and immensely relevant, this book will interest policy-makers, journalists, academics, and lay readers, besides being indispensable to researchers and students of sociology, religion, theology, history, politics, and law.
Author : Srdjan Sremac,Ines W. Jindra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030406820
The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons, substance abuse recovery settings and domestic violence shelters. With an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conversion, the collection provides an opportunity for a better understanding of lived religion, guilt, shame, hope, forgiveness, narrative identity reconstruction, religious coping, religious conversion and spiritual transformation. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of lived religion, religious conversion, recovery, homelessness, and substance dependence.
Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108477031
A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.
Author : Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199713547
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 : Virgil Bailey Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891350845
Author : Christopher Lamb,M. Darroll Bryant
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826437136
Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message. Other religions have been less concerned with conversion except in so far as it has been a negative force for them to confront. This study explores how conversion has been understood by different religions during different eras, and includes a survey of the textual, legal, ritual, historic and experiential dimensions of the phenomenon of conversion.
Author : David M. Luebke,Jared Poley,Daniel C. Ryan,David Warren Sabean
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453761
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of "conversion." One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses denominational change. Yet this concept had no bearing at the outset of the Reformation. Instead, a variety of processes, such as the consolidation of territories along confessional lines, attempts to ensure civic concord, and diplomatic quarrels helped to usher in new ideas about the nature of religious boundaries and, therefore, conversion. However conceptualized, religious change- conversion-had deep social and political implications for early modern German states and societies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004501775
This volume explores conversion experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Author : Rebecca L. Davis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469664880
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of declaring an "authentic" identity amid escalating Cold War fears of brainwashing and coercion. Facing pressure to celebrate a specific vision of Americanism, these converts variously attracted and repelled members of the American public. Whether the act of changing religions was viewed as selfish, reckless, or even unpatriotic, it provoked controversies that ultimately transformed American politics. Public Confessions takes intimate history to its widest relevance, and in so doing, makes you see yourself in both the private and public stories it tells.
Author : Rebecca Samuel Shah,Joel Carpenter
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Ines W. Jindra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004266506
A New Model of Religious Conversion highlights connections between converts' backgrounds and the religions they convert to. It also critiques the prevalent application of network theory and social constructivism to the study of conversion narratives, while making the case for the introduction of biographical sociology to American sociology.