Religious Conversion
Contemporary Practices and Controversies
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 1999
348 pages
978-0-8264-3713-6 (ISBN)
Description
Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message. Other religions have been less concerned with conversion except in so far as it has been a negative force for them to confront. This study explores how conversion has been understood by different religions during different eras, and includes a survey of the textual, legal, ritual, historic and experiential dimensions of the phenomenon of conversion.
Reviews / Votes
"...the volume does an excellent job of distinguishing between ethnic and universal religions, pointing out that conversion is more apt to be associated with the universal religions...this is an excellent volume, one that should be on the shelf of any scholar or student interested in conversion. Perhaps its strongest point is that it is written in a style that makes it accessible both to scholars and to lay persons."--Hindu-Christian Studies, 14 (2001)More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-3713-6 (9780826437136)
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10/1999
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€124.50
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Persons
M. Darroll Bryant, is professor of Religion and Culture at Renison College and Chairman of the Department of Religious
Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The contributors
- A note on diacritics
- Introduction: Conversion: contours of controversy and commitment in a plural world
- Part I: Conversion: theoretical perspectives
- 1 Converting: stages of religious change
- 2 Conversion: inward, outward and awkward
- 3 Conversion: up from evangelicalism or the pentecostal and charismatic experience
- Part II: Conversion in the world's religions
- 4 Conversion as a process leading to enlightenment: the Buddhist perspective
- 5 Conversion to Judaism: a tale of the good, the bad and the ungrateful
- 6 Conversion from within and without in Chinese religion
- 7 Contra conversion: the case of the Zoroastrians of India
- 8 Conversion: a Hindu/Gandhian perspective
- 9 Conversion to Islam: the Qur'anic paradigm
- 10 Conversion in the Sikh tradition
- Part III: Conversion in Christianity
- 11 Conversion in Christianity: from without and from within
- 12 Conversion among charismatics
- 13 Charismatic conversion in the light of Augustine's Confessions
- 14 The Benedictine vow 'conversio morum'
- Part IV: Contemporary cases of conversion
- 15 Coming home and coming out Pagan (but not converting)
- 16 Continuing conversion: a personal journey
- 17 The story of Darshan Singh, a French convert
- 18 Belonging to a cult or new religious movement: act of freewill or form of mind control?
- 19 Being Hindu in North America: the experience of a Western convert
- 20 Cult conversions: controversy and clarification
- 21 Rediscovering Islam: a Muslim journey of faith
- Index
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