TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rambo,Lewis R.
AU  - 
TI  - The Oxford handbook of religious conversion /edited by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles Farhadian
T2  - [Oxford handbooks]
SN  - 9780195338522
AV  - BL639 .O946 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - Series statement on jacket; 2; 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; 2; Digital and Print sharing - 2 chapters covered: CIU's licenses permit copying or sharing of 2 chapters of this title in electronic or print format. PLEASE click on the "copyright permission request link" and request for permission to be obtained for digital/print sharing of more than 2 chapters
N2  - 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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