Conversion in the age of pluralism /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Religion and the social order, 1061-5210 ; v. 17 Religion and the social order ; v. 17.
Subject:	Conversion. Religious pluralism. Conversion. Religious pluralism. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208784

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Other authors / contributors:	Giordan, Giuseppe.
ISBN:	9789047444947 9047444949 9789004178038 9004178031 1282601709 9781282601703 9786612601705 6612601701
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book's chapters assess the nature of conversion and present data on specific convertion types, experiences, and theories including such topics as heroes, semiotics, new towns, pilgrimages, the New Age, relations among Catholics, Afro-Brazilians, and Protestants in Brazil, re-conversionist movements, Soka Gakkai, and the LDS church.
Other form:	Print version: Conversion in the age of pluralism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004178038
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004178038.i-334

Table of 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.

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