The Oxford handbook of religious conversion

Oxford University Press

2014

xiii, 803 p.

Oxford handbooks

9780195338522

Contributors ; Introduction - Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian ; Disciplinary Perspectives ; 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 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 --onversion 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, Henri Gooren, Rick Phillips, & David G. Stewart, Jr. ; Index

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