Joining and leaving religion : research perspectives / edited by Leslie J. Francis and Yaacov J. Katz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Francis, Leslie J.

Katz, Yaacov Julian

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ex-church members.

Religion and sociology.

Conversion.

Apostasy.

Physical Description:

ix, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leominster [England] : Gracewing, 2000.

Contents:

The sovereign consumer? Religious allegiance and disaffiliation in a detraditionalised world / Alan Aldridge

Gone but not quite out of the frame: the distinctive problems of researching religious disaffiliation / Philip Richter

The implications of joining or leaving an established church / Edward Bailey

Entering the sheepfold: a new look at infant baptism / William Strange

Joining and leaving British Methodism since the 1960s / Clive D. Field

Religious affiliation and disaffiliation in late adolescence and early adulthood: the impact of a neglected period of life / Friedrich Schweitzer

Leaving before adolescence: profiling the child no longer in church / Mandy Robbins

Leaving the church to keep my faith: the lived experiences of non-heterosexual Christians / Andrew K.T. Yip

Fresh through the door: newcomers to the church life in Australia / Peter Kaldor and John Bellamy

Dropping out of church: the Australian experience / Philip Hughes ... [et al.]

Joining the church by conversion: a qualitative study of conversions in Holland / Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Andreas Prokopf

Childhood, personality and vocation: a study of Pentecostal ministers / William K. Kay

Swimming against the current: exceptional cases of apostates and converts / Bruce Hunsberger

On gaining and losing faith with style: a study in post-modernity and/or confusion among college students / Jeff Astley

Movements in and out of Orthodox Judaism : the cases of penitents and the disaffected / William Shaffir

Disaffiliation and affiliation: experiences of conflict in leaving Christianity and joining a new spirituality? / Terence J. Lovat and Kellie Morrison

The personality profile of the churchgoer: a study among female French undergraduates / Christopher A. Lewis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0852445172

OCLC:

45476543