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The Oxford handbook of religious conversion / edited by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian.

Contributor(s): Rambo, Lewis R. (Lewis Ray), 1943- [editor.] | Farhadian, Charles E, 1964- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford handbooks: Publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiii, 803 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195338522 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0195338529 (hardcover : alk. paper)Other title: Handbook of religious conversion | Religious conversionSubject(s): ConversionDDC classification: 204/.2 LOC classification: BL639 | .O94 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
History and religious conversion / Marc David Baer -- Demographics of religious conversion / Todd M. Johnson -- Geographies of religious conversion / Lily Kong and Seeta Nair -- Anthropology of religious conversion / Henri Gooren -- The role of language in religious conversion / Peter G. Stromberg -- Sociology of religious conversion / Fenggang Yang and Andrew Abel -- Conversion and the historic spread of religions / Robert L. Montgomery -- Migration and conversion of Korean American Christians / Rebecca Y. Kim -- Psychology of religious conversion and spiritual transformation / Raymond F. Paloutzian -- Religious conversion and cognitive neuroscience / Kelly Bulkeley -- Dreaming and religious conversion / Kelly Bulkeley -- Deconversion / Heinz Streib -- Feminist approaches to the study of religious conversion / Eliza F. Kent -- Seeing religious conversion through the arts / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Religious conversion as narrative and autobiography / Bruce Hindmarsh -- Religious conversion and semiotic analysis / Massimo Leone -- Political science and religious conversion / Timothy J. Steigenga --
Hinduism and conversion / Arvind Sharma -- Conversion to Jain identity / Andrea R. Jain -- Buddhist conversion in the contemporary world / Dan Smyer Yü -- Conversion to Sikhism / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Adherence and conversion to Daoism / Louis Komjathy -- Conversion and Confuciansim / Anna Sun -- "Conversion" and the resurgence of indigenous religion in China / Lizhu Fan and Na Chen -- Conversion to Judaism / Alan F. Segal -- Conversion to Christianity / David W. Kling -- Conversion to Islam in theological and historical perspectives / Marcia Hermansen -- "Conversion" to Islam and the construction of a pious self / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Conversion to new religious movements / Douglas E. Cowan -- Disengagement and apostasy in new religious movements / Stuart A. Wright -- Legal and political issues and religious conversion / James T. Richardson -- Conversion and retention in Mormonism / Seth L. Bryant, Henri Gooren, Rick Phillips, and David G. Stewart, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History and religious conversion / Marc David Baer -- Demographics of religious conversion / Todd M. Johnson -- Geographies of religious conversion / Lily Kong and Seeta Nair -- Anthropology of religious conversion / Henri Gooren -- The role of language in religious conversion / Peter G. Stromberg -- Sociology of religious conversion / Fenggang Yang and Andrew Abel -- Conversion and the historic spread of religions / Robert L. Montgomery -- Migration and conversion of Korean American Christians / Rebecca Y. Kim -- Psychology of religious conversion and spiritual transformation / Raymond F. Paloutzian -- Religious conversion and cognitive neuroscience / Kelly Bulkeley -- Dreaming and religious conversion / Kelly Bulkeley -- Deconversion / Heinz Streib -- Feminist approaches to the study of religious conversion / Eliza F. Kent -- Seeing religious conversion through the arts / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Religious conversion as narrative and autobiography / Bruce Hindmarsh -- Religious conversion and semiotic analysis / Massimo Leone -- Political science and religious conversion / Timothy J. Steigenga --

Hinduism and conversion / Arvind Sharma -- Conversion to Jain identity / Andrea R. Jain -- Buddhist conversion in the contemporary world / Dan Smyer Yü -- Conversion to Sikhism / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Adherence and conversion to Daoism / Louis Komjathy -- Conversion and Confuciansim / Anna Sun -- "Conversion" and the resurgence of indigenous religion in China / Lizhu Fan and Na Chen -- Conversion to Judaism / Alan F. Segal -- Conversion to Christianity / David W. Kling -- Conversion to Islam in theological and historical perspectives / Marcia Hermansen -- "Conversion" to Islam and the construction of a pious self / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Conversion to new religious movements / Douglas E. Cowan -- Disengagement and apostasy in new religious movements / Stuart A. Wright -- Legal and political issues and religious conversion / James T. Richardson -- Conversion and retention in Mormonism / Seth L. Bryant, Henri Gooren, Rick Phillips, and David G. Stewart, Jr.

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