Finding and losing faith : studies in conversion

Type
Book
ISBN 10
1842274104 
ISBN 13
9781842274101 
OCLC
71360961 
Category
Missionary ( 宣教研究 )  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2006 
Publisher
Pages
238 
Subject
BV4916 
Abstract
What is conversion and why do people convert from one religion to another and from one Christian group to another? An intelligent examination of conversions both to and from Christian faith. 
Description
Part one: understanding conversion in multi-faith and post-Christian contexts. Conversion, dialogue and identity: reflections on the British context / Michael Ipgrave -- Beyond conversion: exploring the process of moving away from evangelical Christianity / Gordon Lynch -- Word of the Buddha and Jesus, the Word: conversions from Christianity to Buddhism and from Buddhism to Christianity / Elizabeth Harris -- Becoming pagan having been Christian / Graham Harvey -- Conversion and Judaism / Jonathan Romain -- Social construction of evangelical conversion: a sideways glance / Derek T. Tidball -- Pentecostaperspectiveses on conversion / William K. Kay -- Part two: Understanding conversion to Christianity. Paul: archetypal convert and disputed convert / Stephen J. Chester -- Conversion to Christianity: the colonisation of the mind? / Brian Stanley -- Changing your mother? : Hindu responses to conversion / Robin Thomson -- Conversion and apostasy: the case of Islam / Peter Cotterell -- Emerging debate on apostasy in Britain: a Bradford perspective / Philip Lewis -- Conversion from Hinduism and Sikhism to Christianity in India / Theodore Gabriel. 
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