Harvey, Graham
(1999). Coming home and coming out Pagan but not converting.
In: Lamb, Christopher and Bryant, Darrol eds.
Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies.
London: Cassell, pp. 233–246.
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Abstract
Religious conversion has always been and remains today a controversial issue in many of the world's reigions. It has been promoted, condoned, banned but almost never ignored. Although it normally appears in a religious context, the language of conversion can be discerned at the heart of the new religious pluralism that is increasingly present at least in many Western societies. This volume explains the practices of various world religions and highlights some of the issues that cut across traditions and emerge in distinctive ways in different ways in different religions and cultural settings. The first three chapters offer students some theoretical perspectives, and are followed by accounts of the history of conversion in Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Chinese religion and Zoroastrianism, as well as descriptions of contemporary practice. Additonal chapters look in depth at personal stories of conversion, both within Christianity and from Christianity Eastern and New Age forms of religion.
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Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
1999 The editors and contributors |
| ISBN: |
0-304-33843-5, 978-0-304-33843-6 |
| Keywords: |
conversion |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Religious Studies |
| Item ID: |
21977 |
| Depositing User: |
Jean Fone
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| Date Deposited: |
14 Jul 2010 08:44 |
| Last Modified: |
26 Oct 2012 08:19 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21977 |
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