Book Description
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 : Lewis Ray Rambo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300065152
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 : Lewis Ray Rambo
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300052831
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 : Lewis Rambo
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Dong Young Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1610976177
Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process. It encourages us to bring together the perspectives of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and religious studies into critical and mutually-informing conversation for establishing a richer and more accurate perception of the complex phenomenon of religious conversion. The case of St. Augustine's conversion experience superbly illustrates the complicated and multidimensional process of religious change. By critically extending the contributions of the literature within Lewis Rambo's interdisciplinary framework, Dong Young Kim presents a more integrated picture of how personal, social, cultural, and religious/theological components interact with one another in the process of Augustine's conversion. In doing so, he has struggled with how to relocate more effectively and practically the conversion narrative of Augustine within the context of pastoral care and ministry (and the field of the academy)--in order to facilitate a better understanding of the conversion stories of the church members as well as to enhance the experiences of religious conversion within the Christian community.
Author : Lewis Ray Rambo
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 9780300170016
Author : Joshua Iyadurai
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498270190
What makes a priest of one religion become a preacher of another religion? How could a person embrace a religion suddenly that he or she had up to then opposed? Why would young women risk their reputation and endanger their lives for the sake of newfound faith? How could an alcoholic detest a sip of wine all of a sudden? What drives an atheist to become an ardent worshiper of God? How could an intelligent person relate to God as to an adult human being? Transformative Religious Experience answers these questions with fascinating narratives of conversion. These narratives together show how the transforming effects of conversion permeate the daily lives of converts in a multireligious context. Joshua Iyadurai analyzes psychologically the mystical turning point in the conversion process and finds that the divine-human encounter entails a cognitive restructuring: a new set of beliefs, values, and desires replaces previously held religious beliefs, values, and desires. By drawing insights from the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and theology, Iyadurai develops an interdisciplinary step model from a phenomenological perspective to explain the conversion process that incorporates the religious practices and social-psychological factors while giving a central place to religious experience.
Author : Lewis R. Rambo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199713545
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 : David Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317691725
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 : Andrew Buckser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780742517783
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Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108477038
A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.