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Religious Conversion

Books on: religious conversion

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Religious Conversion, a Bio-Psychological Study

Book by Sante De Sanctis, Helen Augur; Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1927

Subjects:

Conversion, Psychology, Religious

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...need hardly be added that conversion has not quite the same significance...American psychologists. For them conversion is merely a feature of the...undergone the so-called ethico-religious conversion of adolescence...indicated by authors who treat of religious conversion, but it must be...
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Religious Conversion and Identity: The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

Book by Massimo Leone; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Christian Converts--Biography--History And Criticism, Conversion--Christianity--History, Identification (Religion)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...analogous experience of conversion to Christianity, for example...integrity of his self after conversion? And how did the Magdalene...questions is that these conversions have been represented mainly...ambiguous spiritual nature of religious conversion and represent the otherwise...
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Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages

Book by James Muldoon; University Press of Florida, 1997

Subjects:

Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Conversion--Christianity--Case Studies, Conversion--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Conversion, the rejection of one religious tradition in favor of another...another. In the modern mind, religious conversion is usually associated...describe a wide range of related religious experiences, however, we...experiences that we label conversion rather than a single moment...lesser transformations or conversions that, taken collectively...
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Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo

Book by A. D. Nock; Clarendon Press, 1933

Subjects:

Christianity And Other Religions, Conversion, Psychology, Religious

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

CONTENTS I. THE IDEA OF CONVERSION 1 Nature of religion in general...his experience. Elsewhere conversion lacks these presuppositions...adhesion. Why men undertake religious propaganda. II. THE IDEA...interplay cultural rather than religious, in the main, but result...
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The Conversion Experience in America: A Sourcebook on Religious Conversion Autobiography

Book by James Craig Holte; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Christian Converts--United States--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...experience, not all conversion experiences take...profoundly influenced by conversions. The mystery religions...simulated and encouraged conversion behaviors. The transformation...The Psychology of Religious Conversion New York...cognitive, and religious aspects. And Ullman...larger process of conversion point to the conversions of Augustine and...

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Journal Articles on: religious conversion

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Conversion, Deconversion, and Reversion: Vagaries of Religious Experience in Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autofictions

Journal article by Madeline Walker; MELUS, Vol. 34, 2009

Subjects:

Acosta, Oscar Zeta--Criticism and interpretation, Acosta, Oscar Zeta--Religious aspects, Acosta, Oscar Zeta--Works, Conversion (Religion)--Influence, Conversion--Influence, Hispanic American authors--Criticism and interpretation, Hispanic American authors--Religious aspects, Hispanic American authors--Works, Hispanic American writers--Criticism and interpretation, Hispanic American writers--Religious aspects, Hispanic American writers--Works, The Revolt of the Cockroach People (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Revolt of the Cockroach People (Novel)--Religious aspects, TheAutobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, TheAutobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Novel)--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...of the pitfalls of conversion qua assimilation...heretofore underexplored religious narrative undergirds...Acostas work illustrates religious conversions role as intensely...often prescriptive. Conversion promises rewards...factors determining religious behavior. A thumbnail...
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Sites of Conflict in the Indian Secular State: Secularism, Caste and Religious Conversion

Journal article by Robert J. Stephens; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 49, 2007

Subjects:

Caste, Conversion, Hinduism, India, Legislation, Muslims, Politics, Religion, Religious conversion

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...or the "constitutional religious model" of the "secular...forceful" and "fraudulent" conversions to "non-indigenous" religious traditions. It is not...legislation that seeks to ban religious conversion is routinely called swatantra...
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Between Conversion and Apostasy: the Religious Journey of Pierre-anthoine Pastedechouan

Journal article by Emma Anderson; Anthropologica, Vol. 49, 2007

Subjects:

Canada, Catholicism, Native North Americans, Pastedechouan, Pierre-Anthoine, Personal profiles, Religious conversion, Theology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Between Conversion and Apostasy: the Religious Journey of Pierre...view Aboriginal religious conversion in stark, binary...categories of "conversion" and "apostasy...his characteristic religious ambivalence, was...
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Religious Conversion in India: Modes, Motivations, and Meanings

Journal article by David N. Gellner; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Religious Conversions in India: Modes, Motivations, and Meanings (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...book includes chapters on conversion in Jainism (Paul Dundas...the editors themselves on conversions in Goa and Tamil Nadu...diversity of Indias past religious identities, is that all...census and the modernist conversion movements--many of them...only monolithic and pure religious identities to be found in...
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Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa: An Analysis of Bias, Decline, and Conversion Based on the Works of Bernard Lonergan

Journal article by Marinus C. Iwuchukwu; Theological Studies, Vol. 70, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa: An Analysis of Bias, Decline, and Conversion Based on the Works of Bernard Lonergan (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...rightly argues, the needed conversions are not to any particular...tradition but essentially a conversion to God. In the face...active biases and needed conversions stands a general notion of religious conversion that Pope Paul VI firmly...

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Magazine Articles on: religious conversion

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Religious Conversion in the Americas: Meanings, Measures, and Methods

Magazine article by Timothy J. Steigenga; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 34, April 2010

Subjects:

Catholicism, Conversion, Latin America, Missionaries, Protestantism, Religion, Religious congregations, Religious missions, Research, Studies

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...interacts with local religious beliefs and practices...plays some role in conversion, but whether it is...national scale because of religious conversions should be discounted...mobility along with conversion merit careful empirical...between the various religious groups in Latin America...
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Public Schools under Fire: Religious Right Pressure Groups Target Public School Children for Conversion Using an Array of New Tactics

Magazine article by Rob Boston; Church & State, Vol. 60, October 2007

Subjects:

Conversion (Religion)--Political aspects, Conversion--Political aspects, Elementary school students--Religious aspects, Public schools--Political aspects, Religious Right (American politics)--Evaluation, Religious institutions--Political activity, Religious organizations--Political activity, Religious right--Evaluation, Separation of powers--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Schools under Fire: Religious Right Pressure Groups...School Children for Conversion Using an Array of New...something called the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination...change and specific religious references would be...told The Post such conversions are possible. That...
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Conversion Story: A Former Jerry Falwell Follower Reflects on How the Religious Right Gets It Wrong

Magazine article by Jason Childs; Church & State, Vol. 64, May 2011

Subjects:

Church and state, Religious Right (American politics)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religious right--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Conversion Story: A Former Jerry Falwell Follower Reflects on How the Religious Right Gets It Wrong. by Jason Childs I was a Liberty University-trained evangelical pastor. I was sure that I was right and...
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The Economies of Temple Chanting and Conversion in China

Magazine article by Eric Reinders; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 31, October 2007

Subjects:

Ancient languages, Annual reports, Bank accounts, Bible, Christianity, Missionaries, Religion, Religious conversion, Religious missions

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Economies of Temple Chanting and Conversion in China by Eric Reinders...Buddhist temples who earned religious merit by chanting. The Buddhist...It was part of a ritual of conversion-a repudiation of previous...resisted the move to make conversion profitable. Some missionaries...
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When Conversion Is Not on the Agenda: Developing Direct Support Strategies for Mixed Couples

Magazine article by Charles Simon; Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 55, Summer-Fall 2006

Subjects:

Conversion (Religion)--Management, Conversion--Management, Intermarriage--Religious aspects, Intermarriage--Statistics, Rabbis--Management

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

When Conversion Is Not on the Agenda: Developing...least at this moment, that conversion is not an option. The NJPS...the key to both communal and religious life, yet it is often omitted from conversion curricula and is certainly...

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Newspaper Articles on: religious conversion

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Religious Conversion Redefined Nominee's Worldview

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 5, 2005

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Supreme Court justices, Supreme court justices

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Religious Conversion Redefined Nominees Worldview. Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON...says she is a solid believer who, like President Bush, had a religious conversion in her 30s. This was in June 1979. Within a few days of her decision...
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Drug-Fuelled Lifestyle Led a Lost Teenager to Religious Conversion

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Drug-Fuelled Lifestyle Led a Lost Teenager to Religious Conversion. Andrew Rowe said he converted to Islam after hours...converted to Islam as an adult. After his full conversion in1997, he called himself Yusuf Abdullah and married...
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Shariah Goes to Harvard; Muslim Chaplain's Crimson Take on Death for Conversion

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 24, 2009

Subjects:

Islamic law, Muslims, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Crimson Take on Death for Conversion. Byline: Diana West...what it means to have a religious leader at Harvard validate...ultimate act of Islamic religious persecution. But dismissing...conflict with Muslim religious authorities. His words...
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A Religious Test for a President

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 2, 2011

Subjects:

Keller, Bill--Religious aspects, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...well - are men and women of religious faith. Mr. Keller likens religious faith to claims that space...description of spiritual conversion that the chattering class...pray, a majority attend religious services at least occasionally...
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Religious Limits Span the Globe

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 27, 2009

Subjects:

Christian-Muslim relations--Religious aspects, Christian-Muslim relations--Reports, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Christianity and other religions--Religious aspects, Christianity and other religions--Reports, Christians--Religious aspects, Christians--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...worlds 198 countries guarantee religious freedom in their constitutions...country that on paper promises religious freedom, then says a citizens...citizen attacks on unpopular religious groups or assaults by one...between Muslims and Christians. Conversion from Islam to Christianity...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: religious conversion

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Wesley, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...methodical devotion to study and religious duties. In 1735, the Wesleys...1738, at a meeting of a small religious society in Aldersgate St., London, Wesley experienced a religious conversion while listening to a reading...
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Chaitanya

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...as a scholar, but at 22 he underwent a profound religious conversion and became an ecstatic devotee of Krishna . At 24...nonritualistic worship in the form of kirtan, or religious song and dance, and devotion focusing on the love...
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Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...an undercurrent of piety runs through much of his work. In the last years of his life, Rochester underwent a religious conversion. See his Complete Poems, ed. by D. M. Vieth (1968); V. de S. Pinto, Enthusiast in Wit (1962); D...
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Undset, Sigrid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...writing, always powerfully ethical, deepened in religious intensity after her conversion (1924) to Roman Catholicism. Undset is most...the excessively detailed and more explicitly religious Olav Audunsson (4 vol., 1925 27; tr. The...
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Germany

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was unable to enforce his religious policies or to prevent the conversion to Protestantism of many powerful princes. Links between religious and economic unrest were...Reformation, which hardened the religious and political divisions in...

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