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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
… of the Appalachians. Most of the first Shaker converts in Logan County had only a few years beforehand participated in a series of evangelical Presbyterian camp meetings known collectively as the Kentucky Revival, the Revival of 1800, or the Great Revival.Though Presbyterian revivalism and …
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Understanding the stages of conversion to Islam : the voices of British converts
… face to face interviews with a sample of British converts to Islam to find out how and why they came to convert, and what were the repercussions of their conversions. The work is placed in the context of the predominantly post-Christian British society in which they had spent the greater part of …
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Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic
Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic tells the story of the Iberian New Christians or conversos – Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism – who arrived in Amsterdam in the early 1600s. In post-Reformation Netherlands, they encountered something new, Freedom of …
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Ruptured Lives: Narrative Accounts of US American Adult Converts to Evangelical Christianity over the Life Course
… examined the narratives of six US American adult converts to evangelical Christianity to identify the ways that rupture affected their post-evangelical lives. I discovered that, while rupture is a feature of these narratives, their stories were best understood when examined in relation to …
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
… ethnically "Jewish". In this study, two types of converts are considered, namely con-verts who come to Judaism through marriage and converts for religious purposes. Through in-depth-interviews with rabbis and converts, experiences of social inclusion and exclusion, and the meaning of conversions …
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Plaatberg on the Caledon Bastaards: hunters, raiders and traders or pious converts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society?
… “heathen” inhabitants into “civilized” Christian converts, by the imposition of a variety of rules and regulations to achieve this aim. I consider how the very nature of being a creolized mobile group may have influenced the Plaatberg Bastaards responses to the Wesleyan missionaries. These …
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Social and religious interaction and integration of Chinese Muslim converts with Malays in Kuala Lumpur an empirical study
… and integration between Chinese Muslim converts and their Malay counterparts in Kuala Lumpur. I was sure that interaction and integration in both social and religious aspects are dilemmas which Chinese Muslims face when they convert from their own religion to Islam. It suggests that when …
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Conversion to Islam in Colorado
… written that examine non-African American US converts. Furthermore, this literature generally neglects using models of conversion for analyzing US Muslims. This thesis is an attempt to begin such a project. For this thesis, I interviewed 13 converts to Islam over the course of a month and a …
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A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America
… compares the Islamophobic experiences of female converts and immigrants in America. It is based on interviews with a total of thirteen women, six Muslim born ones and seven converts. Both groups included hijabis and non-hijabis. Unlike most other studies, in which the converts are mostly or …
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Outcomes of Conversion to Judaism through the Reform Movement 1952-2002
I examined the characteristics of converts to Judaism through the Reform Synagogues, 1952-2002, exploring the psychological impact of conversion, the nature of their Jewish identity and the durability of their religious commitment through time. Recognising the large variation in the Jewish practice …
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Conversion to Islam and Family Relations in Contemporary Britain
… a Western, Muslim-minority context defines converts’ primary concern with a social re-positioning vis-à-vis their families, and society at large. Narrating continuity and presenting conversion in terms of rationalism helps the converts to position themselves as modern subjects, while …
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White Muslim convert in the UK : beyond integration paradigm and the politics of “the other”
… main argument of this study is that, while white converts challenge the common binaries between Islam and whiteness by embodying both identities, simultaneously, they sustain the rachial hierarchy particularly within Muslim community by embodying their white privilege in their daily life. …
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Reconstructing identity: A study of new Muslims in São Paulo, Brazil
… address questions of identity that male Muslim converts in São Paulo, Brazil face after adopting Islam. Specifically, it will analyze how they place their religion into notions of what it means to be Brazilian. Furthermore, this paper will show how many of these converts use Islam as a way to …
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The Communication of Conversion and the Christian Patriot Movement: Proselytization Within the Far Right
… Church members. The results indicate that converts speak of fantasy themes when conversing about their conversion experience as well as maintaining their faith. The existence of fantasy themes within the conversion experience led the researcher to create a model of conversion that contains …
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Post-Conversion Experiences of African-American Male Sunni Muslims: Community Integration and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Philadelphia
… American males form the largest category of converts to Sunni Islam in the US. This study aimed at understanding the ways in which the conversion process impacted social connections, both preexisting connections and creation and fostering of new ones post-conversion. This study sought to …
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Knitting with directed graphs
… Meshes as well as a conversion pipeline that converts written hand knitting instructions to and from Knit Meshes and an algorithm that converts certain Knit Meshes into knitting machine code.
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Socialization in Chinese Academic Immigrants' Conversion to Christianity
… and interviews. Fourteen Chinese student converts were interviewed. The analysis focuses on the interaction between recruits and Christians. Results supported the idea that religious conversion happens progressively. Affective bonds are essential for the religious conversion of Chinese …
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