| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 803 pages .) |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks series |
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Oxford handbooks.
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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 and Seeta Nair -- Anthropology of religious conversion / Henri Gooren -- The role of language in religious conversion / Peter G. Stromberg -- Sociology of religious conversion / Fenggang Yang and 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 Yü -- 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 [and 3 others] |
| Summary |
This handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Conversion.
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Conversion
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Konversion Religion
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Konversion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rambo, Lewis R. (Lewis Ray), 1943- editor.
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| ISBN |
019998459X |
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9780199984596 |
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9780199713547 |
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0199713545 |
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