The Oxford handbook of religious conversion /edited by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles Farhadian.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.
- xiii, 803 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
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Series statement on jacket.
Includes bibliographies and index.
History and religious conversion Demographics of religious conversion Geographies of religious conversion Anthropology of religious conversion The role of language in religious conversion Sociology of religious conversion Conversion and the historic spread of religions Migration and conversion of Korean American Christians Psychology of religious conversion and spiritual transformation Religious conversion and cognitive neuroscience Dreaming and religious conversion Deconversion Feminist approaches to the study of religious conversion Seeing religious conversion through the arts Religious conversion as narrative and autobiography Religious conversion and semiotic analysis Political science and religious conversion Hinduism and conversion Conversion to Jain identity Buddhist conversion in the contemporary world Conversion to Sikhism Adherence and conversion to Daoism Conversion and Confuciansim Conversion and the resurgence of indigenous religion in China Conversion to Judaism Conversion to Christianity Conversion to Islam in theological and historical perspectives Conversion to Islam and the construction of a pious self Conversion to new religious movements Disengagement and apostasy in new religious movements Legal and political issues and religious conversion Conversion and retention in Mormonism Marc David Baer -- Todd M. Johnson -- Lily Kong, Seeta Nair -- Henri Gooren -- Peter G. Stromberg -- Fenggang Yang, Andrew Abel -- Robert L. Montgomery -- Rebecca Y. Kim -- Raymond F. Paloutzian -- Kelly Bulkeley -- Kelly Bulkeley -- Heinz Streib -- Eliza F. Kent -- Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Bruce Hindmarsh -- Massimo Leone -- Timothy J. Steigenga -- Arvind Sharma -- Andrea R. Jain -- Dan Smyer Y u -- Gurinder Singh Mann -- Louis Komjathy -- Anna Sun -- Lizhu Fan and Na Chen -- Alan F. Segal -- David W. Kling -- Marcia Hermansen -- Karin van Nieuwerk -- Douglas E. Cowan -- Stuart A. Wright -- James T. Richardson -- 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).