Conversion in the age of pluralism /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. |
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| Description: | xiii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and the social order, 1061-5210 ; v. 17 Religion and the social order ; v. 17. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8125771 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: The Sociology of Conversion
- Introduction: The Varieties of Conversion Experience
- 1. The Meaning of Conversion: Redirection of Foundational Trust
- 2. Conversion: Heroes and their Sociological Redemption
- 3. Elements for a Semiotics of ôConversionö
- 4. For Love of Faith: Patterns of Religious Engagement in a New Town
- 5. Pilgrimage and Conversion
- 6. Becoming a New Ager: A Conversion, An Affiliation, A Fashion?
- 7. Enchantment, Identity, Community, and Conversion: Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil
- 8. Convert, Revert, Pervert
- 9. Conversion as a New Lifestyle: An Exploratory Study of Soka Gakkai in Italy
- 10. Conversion as Opposition
- 11. Making the Convert: Conversions in the LDS Community Today
- 12. A Cognitive Psychology Perspective on Religious Conversion as Told in the Gospels
- 13. Conversion and Mission: Missionary Insertion and the Social Conditions of Christianization
- Contributors