Conversion in the age of pluralism / edited by Guiseppe Giordan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giordan, Giuseppe.

Series:

Religion and the social order ; v. 17.

Religion and the social order, 1061-5210 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversion.

Religious pluralism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Summary:

The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the frame-work linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests-everything is open to potential debate when an individual ‘converts.’ Conversion is especially developed here through a connection with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic of our era: what does it mean to speak of ‘conversion’ in a time in which it seems that the presumption of only one ‘true’ truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live together, each with its own judgment criteria?

Contents:

Preface: The sociology of conversion / Roberto Cipriani

Introduction: The varieties of conversion experience / Giuseppe Giordan

The meaning of conversion : redirection of foundational trust / Anthony J. Blasi

Conversion : heroes and their sociological redemption / Kieran Flanagan

Elements for a semiotics of "conversion" / Patrick Michel

For love of faith : patterns of religious engagement in a new town / Kees de Groot

Pilgrimage and conversion / William H. Swatos, Jr.

Becoming a new ager : a conversion, an affiliation, a fashion? / Régis Dericquebourg

Enchantment, identity, community, and conversion : Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil / Roberto Motta

Convert, revert, pervert / Enzo Pace

Conversion as a new lifestyle : an exploratory study of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Luigi Berzano and Eliana Martoglio

Conversion as opposition / Giuseppe Giordan

Making the convert : conversions in the LDS community today / Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud

A cognitive psychology perspective on religious conversion as told in the Gospels / Stefano Federici, Pierluigi Caddeo, and Francesco Valerio Tommasi

Conversion and mission : missionary insertion and the social conditions of Christianization / Paul-André Turcotte.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004178038

9004178031

OCLC:

367419714