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• History and religious conversion / Marc David Baer
• Demographics of religious conversion / Todd M. Johnson
• Geographies of religious conversion / Lily Kong and Seeta Nair
• Anthropology of religious conversion / Henri Gooren
• The role of language in religious conversion / Peter G. Stromberg
• Sociology of religious conversion / Fenggang Yang and Andrew Abel
• Conversion and the historic spread of religions / Robert L. Montgomery
• Migration and conversion of Korean American Christians / Rebecca Y. Kim
• Psychology of religious conversion and spiritual transformation / Raymond F. Paloutzian
• Religious conversion and cognitive neuroscience / Kelly Bulkeley
• Dreaming and religious conversion / Kelly Bulkeley
• Deconversion / Heinz Streib
• Feminist approaches to the study of religious conversion / Eliza F. Kent
• Seeing religious conversion through the arts / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
• Religious conversion as narrative and autobiography / Bruce Hindmarsh
• Religious conversion and semiotic analysis / Massimo Leone
• Political science and religious conversion / Timothy J. Steigenga
• Hinduism and conversion / Arvind Sharma
• Conversion to Jain identity / Andrea R. Jain
• Buddhist conversion in the contemporary world / Dan Smyer Yü
• Conversion to Sikhism / Gurinder Singh Mann
• Adherence and conversion to Daoism / Louis Komjathy
• Conversion and Confuciansim / Anna Sun
• "Conversion" and the resurgence of indigenous religion in China / Lizhu Fan and Na Chen
• Conversion to Judaism / Alan F. Segal
• Conversion to Christianity / David W. Kling
• Conversion to Islam in theological and historical perspectives / Marcia Hermansen
• "Conversion" to Islam and the construction of a pious self / Karin van Nieuwkerk
• Conversion to new religious movements / Douglas E. Cowan
• Disengagement and apostasy in new religious movements / Stuart A. Wright
• Legal and political issues and religious conversion / James T. Richardson
• Conversion and retention in Mormonism / Seth L. Bryant, Henri Gooren, Rick Phillips, and David G. Stewart, Jr.

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 32 innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, disciplinary perspectives on a range of methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.
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• Le secret
• Conversion philosophique et conversion religieuse
• Itinéraires. Franz Rosenzweig
• Henri Bergson
• Simone Weil
• Thomas Merton
• Etty Hillesum.

• Introduction: The Appeal of Conversion Approaches to Conversion The Conversion Career Conversion and the Religious Market Stories of Conversion and Disaffiliation Conversion Careers in Latin America.
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The conversion career, defined as all episodes of participation in religious organizations during a person's life, is a new and systematic approach to conversion and disaffiliation as a dynamic process. It is a tool to analyze the interplay of factors between the individual actor, the religious organization, and the wider social and cultural context. This book is the first in over a decade to attempt a systematic synthesis of the field of conversion studies, encompassing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and theology. Gooren analyzes conversion and disaffiliation in a worldwide comparative framework, using data from North America, Europe, and Latin America.
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• Part 1 Preface
• Part 2 In Memoriam: Morton Klass
• Chapter 3 The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction
• Part 4 Part One: Conversion and Social Processes
• Chapter 5 Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Coversion
• Chapter 6 Agency, Bureaucracy and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian "Felashmura" Immigrants to Israel
• Chapter 7 Converted Innocents and their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Proselytising in India
• Chapter 8 Comparing Conversion among the Dani of Irian Jaya
• Chapter 9 The Meanings of Conversion in Jewish Copenhagen
• Chapter 10 Conversion and Marginality in Southern India
• Part 11 Part Two: Conceptualizing Conversion: Alternative Perspectives
• Chapter 12 The Place of Evil in Aguaruna Evangelical Conversion Narratives
• Chapter 13 Turning the Belly: Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings
• Chapter 14 Constraint and Freedom in Icelandic Conversions
• Chapter 15 Mystical Experiences, American Culture, and Conversion to Christian Spiritualist Churches
• Part 16 Part Three: Conversion and Individual Experience
• Chapter 17 "Limin' wid Ja": Spiritual Baptists who become Rastafarians and then become Spiritual Baptists again
• Chapter 18 Converting to what? Embodied Culture and Adoption of New Beliefs
• Chapter 19 From Jehovah Witness to Benedictine Nun: Conversion, Enculturation, and Formation as an ongoing Process
• Chapter 20 Converted Christians, Shamans, and the House of God: An Analysis of the Reasons for Conversion given by the Western Toba (Gran Chaco, Argentina)
• Part 21 Afterword: Anthropology and the Study of Conversion.
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The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on its cultural setting and on the distinct individuals who undergo it. The book explores religious conversion in a variety of cultural settings and considers how anthropological approaches can help us understand the phenomenon. Fourteen case studies span historical and geographical contexts, including the contemporary United States, modern and medieval Europe, and non-western societies in South Asia, Melanesia, and South America. They discuss conversion to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Spiritualism. Combining ethnographic description with theoretical analysis, authors consider the nature and meaning of conversion, its social and political dimensions, and its relationship to individual religious experience.
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• Part 1 Conversion - theoretical perspectives: converting -stages of religious change, Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian-- conversion, inward and outward, Donald Taylor-- conversion - up from evangelicalism or the pentecostal and charismatic experience, Frank K. Flinn.
• Part 2 Conversion in the world's religions: conversion as a process leading to enlightenment - the Buddhist perspective, Christopher Lamb-- conversion to Judaism - a tale of the good, the bad and the ungrateful slanders or saviours, Rabbi Rodney Marriner-- conversion from within and without in Chinese religion, Jordan Paper-- contra conversion - the case of the Zoroastrians of India, Homi B. Dala-- conversion - a Hindu/Ghandian perspective, K.L. Seshagiri Rao-- conversion to Islam - the Qur'anic paradigm, Yasin Dutton-- conversion in the Sikh tradition, Doris R. Jakobsh.
• Part 3 Conversion in Christianity: conversion in Christianity - from without and from within, M. Darrol Bryant-- charismatic conversion in the light of Augustine's confessions, Karla Poewe-- conversion in an African tradition, Irving Hexham-- the Benedictine vow "Conversio Morum", Dame Macrina Sitzia.
• Part 4 Contemporary cases of conversion: coming home and coming out pagan (but not converting), Graham Harvey-- continuing conversion - a personal journey, Father Tim Edgar-- the story of Darshan Singh, a French convert, Darshan Singh Rudel-- belonging to a cult or new religious movement - act of freewill of mind control, Rev Martin Eggleton-- being Hindu in North America - the experience of a western convert, Tamai Krishna Goswami-- cult conversions - controversy and clarification, Lorne L. Dawson-- rediscovering Islam - a Muslim journey of faith, Sophie Gilliat.
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Religious conversion has always been and remains today a controversial issue in many of the world's reigions. It has been promoted, condoned, banned but almost never ignored. Although it normally appears in a religious context, the language of conversion can be discerned at the heart of the new religious pluralism that is increasingly present at least in many Western societies. This volume explains the practices of various world religions and highlights some of the issues that cut across traditions and emerge in distinctive ways in different ways in different religions and cultural settings. The first three chapters offer students some theoretical perspectives, and are followed by accounts of the history of conversion in Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Chinese religion and Zoroastrianism, as well as descriptions of contemporary practice. Additonal chapters look in depth at personal stories of conversion, both within Christianity and from Christianity Eastern and New Age forms of religion. The book will be of interest to undergraduates as well as the general reader interested in gaining an insight into an enduring controversy that affects all religions.Christopher Lamb is Head of the Centre for Inter-Faith Dialogue at Middlesex University, London. M. Darrol Bryant is Professor of Religion and Culture at Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
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Discusses the dynamics of religious conversion, presenting it as a process of change with personal, cultural, social and religious implications. The text draws on insights from psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and interviews with converts from disparate backgrounds.
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Examines the ways in which people made sense of religious conversion during the 12th century, a critical point in the formation of Western moral values. The book also indicates that the understanding of conversions, rooted in medieval love of indirect and intricate allegorical symbolism, entered the permanent legacy of Western literature and art. The idea of conversion became a mythic strategy of survival in conflict against the world, the flesh and the devil. This book holds that the idea of conversion was a study in aesthetics, specifically in a male aesthetic, combining the brotherhood that violence engendered among warriors with the inexplicable genius of the poet. It explores the ascetic discipline, social myth, and representational art as components in a vast, militantly aggressive education system that served as context defining in the conversion process. The author of this book begins by explaining the basic critical proposition: that the experience of conversion is quite different from what is called conversion in texts; that no one can grasp the actual experience through texts about it; that Western religious literature displays not one kind of conversion, but an ill-matched repertory of such paradigms, each with a distinctive history; and that the moral imperative to change self and society is embroiled by the idea of conversion, has contributed an enduring, dominant and relentless ideal to Western culture.
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