Conversion in the age of pluralism
By: edited by Guiseppe Giordan.
Contributors: Giordan, Giuseppe.
Series: Religion and the social order -- v. 17; Religion and the social order -- v. 17.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9789004178038
Subjects: Conversion; Religious pluralism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The sociology of conversion / Roberto Cipriani; title: Introduction: The varieties of conversion experience / Giuseppe Giordan; title: The meaning of conversion : redirection of foundational trust / Anthony J. Blasi; title: Conversion : heroes and their sociological redemption / Kieran Flanagan; title: Elements for a semiotics of "conversion" / Patrick Michel; title: For love of faith : patterns of religious engagement in a new town / Kees de Groot; title: Pilgrimage and conversion / William H. Swatos, Jr.; title: Becoming a new ager : a conversion, an affiliation, a fashion? / Régis Dericquebourg; title: Enchantment, identity, community, and conversion : Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil / Roberto Motta; title: Convert, revert, pervert / Enzo Pace; title: Conversion as a new lifestyle : an exploratory study of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Luigi Berzano and Eliana Martoglio; title: Conversion as opposition / Giuseppe Giordan; title: Making the convert : conversions in the LDS community today / Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud; title: A cognitive psychology perspective on religious conversion as told in the Gospels / Stefano Federici, Pierluigi Caddeo, and Francesco Valerio Tommasi; title: Conversion and mission : missionary insertion and the social conditions of Christianization / Paul-André Turcotte.