Conversion in the age of pluralism

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Giordan, Giuseppe
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Religion and the social order ; v. 17.
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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.