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The Oxford handbook of religious conversion /edited by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles Farhadian.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.Description: xiii, 803 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195338522
  • 9780199713547
LOC classification:
  • BL639 .O946 2014
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Contents:
History and religious conversion Marc David Baer -- Demographics of religious conversion Todd M. Johnson -- Geographies of religious conversion Lily Kong, Seeta Nair -- Anthropology of religious conversion Henri Gooren -- The role of language in religious conversion Peter G. Stromberg -- Sociology of religious conversion Fenggang Yang, 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 Y u -- 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 Nieuwerk -- 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
Subject: 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 or 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. (Book jacket).
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Includes bibliographies and index.

History and religious conversion Marc David Baer -- Demographics of religious conversion Todd M. Johnson -- Geographies of religious conversion Lily Kong, Seeta Nair -- Anthropology of religious conversion Henri Gooren -- The role of language in religious conversion Peter G. Stromberg -- Sociology of religious conversion Fenggang Yang, 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 Y u -- 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 Nieuwerk -- 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

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 or 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. (Book jacket).

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