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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.
Salient Features
Offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary, multireligious and up-to-date resources for the study of the dynamics, methods and theories of conversion.
Table of Contents:
Disciplinary Perspectives
History of Religious Conversion - Marc David Baer
Demographics of Religious Conversion - Todd M. Johnson
Geography of Religious Conversion - Lily Kong and Seeta Nair
Anthropology of Conversion - Henri Gooren
The Role of Language in Religious Conversion - Peter Stromberg
Sociology of Conversion - Fenggang Yang and Andrew Abel
Conversion and the Historic Spread of Religions - Robert Montgomery
Migration and Conversion of Korean American Christians - Rebecca Kim
Psychology of Religious Conversion - Ray Paloutzian
Religious Conversion and Cognitive Neuroscience - Kelly Bulkeley
Dreaming and Religious Conversion - Kelly Bulkeley
Deconversion - Heinz Streib
Feminist Approaches to the Study of Conversion- Eliza Kent
Religious Conversion and the Arts - Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Religious Conversion as Narrative and Autobiography - Bruce Hindmarsh
Religious Conversion and Semiotic Analysis - Massimo Leone
Politics and Religious Conversion - Timothy J. Steigenga
Religions
Hinduism and Conversion - Arvind Sharma
Conversion to Jainism - Andrea Jain
Conversion to Buddhism - Dan Smyer Yü
Conversion to Sikhism - Gurinder Singh Mann
Conversion to Daoism - Louis Komjathy
Conversion to Confucianism - Anna Sun
Conversion and Indigenous Religions in China - Fan Lizhu and Chen Na
Conversion to Judaism - Alan Segal
Conversion to Christianity - David Kling
Conversion to Islam in Theological and Historical Perspectives - Marcia Hermansen
Conversion to Islam and the Construction of a Pious Self - Karin van Nieuwkerk
Conversion to New Religious Movements - Douglas Cowan
Deconversion from New Religious Movements - Stuart A. Wright
Legal and Political Issues and Religious Conversion - James Richardson
Conversion to Mormonism - Seth L. Bryant, Henri Gooren, Rick Phillips and David G. Stewart, Jr.
IndexISBN - 9780195338522
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Pages : 828
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