By Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian,Louis Komjathy
ISBN-10: 0195338529
ISBN-13: 9780195338522
This quantity examines the reviews of people and groups who switch religions, those that adventure an intensification in their faith of starting place, and those that stumble upon new religions via colonial intrusion, missionary paintings, and charismatic and revitalization hobbies. The thirty-two cutting edge essays offer overviews of the background of specific religions, together with Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new non secular pursuits. The essays additionally supply a variety of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, felony, political, feminist, and geographical-on equipment and theories deployed in knowing conversion, and perception into a number of sorts of deconversion.
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