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Religious conversion : contemporary practices and controversies / edited by Christopher Lamb and M. Darrol Bryant.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Issues in contemporary religion.
- Issues in contemporary religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conversion.
- Psychology, Religious.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; The contributors; A note on diacritics; Introduction: Conversion: contours of controversy and commitment in a plural world; Part I: Conversion: theoretical perspectives; Part II: Conversion in the world's religions; Part III: Conversion in Christianity; Part IV: Contemporary cases of conversion; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611783310
- 9781281783318
- 1281783315
- 9780826437136
- 0826437133
- OCLC:
- 427509884
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