Conversion in the age of pluralism / edited by Guiseppe Giordan.

Other author Giordan, Giuseppe.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionxiii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesReligion and the social order, 1061-5210 ; v. 17
Religion and the social order v. 17. ^A782328
Contents 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.
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ISBN9789004178038 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9004178031 (hardback : alk. paper)