Religious Conversion and Personal Identity
Author | : Virgil Bailey Gillespie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Virgil Bailey Gillespie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Massimo Leone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134402465 |
The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity, the anxiety of destabilization, the reconstitution of the self and the discovery of a new language of the soul.
Author | : Wilfrid James Jolicoeur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rebecca L. Davis |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469664887 |
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of declaring an "authentic" identity amid escalating Cold War fears of brainwashing and coercion. Facing pressure to celebrate a specific vision of Americanism, these converts variously attracted and repelled members of the American public. Whether the act of changing religions was viewed as selfish, reckless, or even unpatriotic, it provoked controversies that ultimately transformed American politics. Public Confessions takes intimate history to its widest relevance, and in so doing, makes you see yourself in both the private and public stories it tells.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004501770 |
This volume explores conversion experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Author | : David Adams Leeming |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1023 |
Release | : 2009-10-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 038771801X |
Integrating psychology and religion, this unique encyclopedia offers a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. It provides an intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world’s religious traditions. Easy-to-read, the encyclopedia draws from forty different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion.
Author | : Lewis R. Rambo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 829 |
Release | : 2014-03-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199713545 |
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.
Author | : Srdjan Sremac |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030406822 |
The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons, substance abuse recovery settings and domestic violence shelters. With an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conversion, the collection provides an opportunity for a better understanding of lived religion, guilt, shame, hope, forgiveness, narrative identity reconstruction, religious coping, religious conversion and spiritual transformation. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of lived religion, religious conversion, recovery, homelessness, and substance dependence.
Author | : Chana Ullman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1489909303 |
This book is about the dramatic experience of religious conver sion. The phenomenon of religious conversion lies at the crossroad of several disciplines. As the title of this book indicates, my own interest in religious conversion is not sociological, historical, nor anthropolog ical. My primary interest is not even in the domain of the psychology of religion. That is, this book is not a comprehensive review of the social psychological factors that shape religious beliefs in general and religious conversions in particular. Rather, my primary interest is in the experience of conversion as an instance of a meaningful, sudden change in the course of individu al lives. Religious conversion is examined in this book prinwrily from the point of view of the psychology of the self. My aim is to elucidate the experience of religious conversion as a change in the self and to raise suggestions for the study of the self that derive from the data on religious conversion. This interest dictated the scope as well as the methods of the present investigation. Namely, I have chosen to study individuals who have indeed changed visibly as a result of their conversion. My inquiry was based on self-report, assuming the importance of the person's own point of view. Finally, my inquiry was semi-clinical, vii viii PREFACE based on the assumption of an underlying structure to the varieties of conversion experiences.
Author | : Lieke Stelling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108477038 |
A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.