RT Book
T1 Conversion in the age of pluralism
T2 Religion and the social order 1061-5210
T2 Religion and the social order
A2 Giordan, Giuseppe 1966-
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1655519301
AB 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.
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record
CN BL639
SN 9789047444947
SN 9047444949
K1 Conversion
K1 Religious Pluralism
K1 Konversion
K1 Religiöser Pluralismus
K1 Bekering
K1 Plurale samenleving
K1 RELIGION ; Christian Life ; General
K1 Religious pluralism
K1 Electronic books
K1 Aufsatzsammlung