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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Religious conversion"”.
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Surrender to Krishna : religious conversion and cultural change
… is to examine core ideas relating to theories of conversion into New Religious Movements and assess whether such can be broadened in respect of issues of individual and 'Wider cultural change, and in doing so consider the connections between religious experience as a cultural expression and other …
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
"While early medieval conversion narratives have been mined by historians for the clues they offer to the Christianization of the West, critics of Old English conversion narratives have tended either to isolate their ""Germanic"" or ""heroic"" elements or to submerge their historical particulars …
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Religious Conversion and Nenets Bricolage: Making Modernity in the Polar Ural Tundra
… the phenomenon of post-Soviet Evangelical conversion among the Nenets people living in the Polar Ural tundra. In the post-Soviet period new opportunities have been created for cross-cultural interaction, revealing a global religious market place and opening up Siberia to an ‘army’ of …
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In pursuit of tradition: Local cults and religious conversion among the Sambla of Burkina Faso
… group of western Burkina Faso, in relation to religious shifts of affiliation. Past religious regional movements in the Volta region and contemporary religious changes among the Sambla show that local identities are produced by people who do not perceive a disjunction between local culture and …
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
… minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. Taking a social constructionist approach to understanding religious conversion, it is argued that religious conversion to Orthodox Judaism is also a social process of becoming ethnically "Jewish". In this study, two types …
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Socialization in Chinese Academic Immigrants' Conversion to Christianity
… social factors in Chinese academic immigrants’ conversion to Christianity using the perspectives of symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory. The research data are drawn from observation and interviews. Fourteen Chinese student converts were interviewed. The analysis focuses on the …
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Understanding the Islamic conversion experience of two African American males: a case study approach to decision making toward transformational change
Islamic conversion among African Americans is a unique 20th-Century phenomenon. African Americans represent 42% of the total Muslim population in America. This research study describes the life experience and decision process of two African American male converts to Islam. It examines Islamic …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… heated debates about the political valences of religious conversion in colonial India and explains how religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial India in the …
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By knot of one, the spell’s begun: Finding the Wiccan Path. An investigation of conversion practices within the Wicca community.
… a sociological interpretation of the change in religious beliefs among members of the Pagan branch called Wicca, arguing that the process of joining Wicca is characterised by a process of religious conversion as well as a process of religious affiliation. This distinction involves a challenge to …
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The Jesuits history's most effective special operators
… then influence, and eventually working for religious conversion proved far more effective than the relatively forceful tack taken by Dominican and Franciscan missionaries. We propose to examine the most successful Jesuit practices, create a general model of their approach, and draw parallels …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… the literary results of migration, cultural or religious conversion within the increasingly diversifying metropolitan centers? I find that such double consciousness of the migrant artist provides an exilic writing that instigates two types of perspectives: satirical and melancholic. I argue that …
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The Muslims of Kathmandu: A study of religious identity in a Hindu Kingdom
This is a study of religious identity in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim is to establish the circumstances and conditions that define religious identity and the contexts in which it is expressed. Religious identity operates on various levels. At the macro-level, the Muslims are defined by the state as a …
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Noah Webster spelled out
… research of Noah Webster, his moral beliefs, his religious conversion, his political persuasions, and his voluminous writings, has indisputably revealed that Webster intended to shape the entire American nation through his writings and through its public education system. Relying primarily on …
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Living With Hierarchies: Religion, Language, and Personhood Among Wa Buddhists in Postsocialist China
… study of transformative meanings of ethno-religious practices, multiple language use, and identity politics among Southwest China's rural Wa Buddhist people. These villagers are socially and historically positioned between the dominant Chinese state and transborder Buddhist power. After …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… is an ethnography of the contested process of religious change across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in the Ecuadorian Andes. This process, which I term re-generating Christianity, involves negotiating the legacies of mass conversion in shifting sociocultural contexts in and …
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BALIK-ISLAM IN THE PHILIPPINES: REVERSION, SYMBOLIC NEGOTIATION, AND BECOMING THE OTHER
… recent developments reflect an upsurge in conversion to Islam, particularly in the northern Philippines. This dissertation examines one of the fastest growing religious phenomena in Southeast Asia, Balik-Islam, which means “reverts to Islam,” or the process of “returning to Islam.” The …
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Melville's Missionaries and the Loss of Culture
… the missionary efforts among the islanders. The religious conversion and acculturation of the Polynesian natives led Melville to question the missionaries' activities. The different cultures of these islands increased Melville's already skeptical outlook on the standards his own culture insisted …
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From One Woman to Another: The Role of Spanish Women in the Catholic Education of Indigenous Girls in Sixteenth Century New Spain
… yet women were greatly involved in the religious education and conversion of indigenous girls. Religious laywomen, or beatas, served as religious teachers to indigenous daughters of nobility, helping to shape colonial society. The beatas garnered great support of their work from Spain's …
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Ancient Maya Afterlife Iconography: Traveling Between Worlds
… after the Spanish invasion show evidence of the religious conversion that was underway. Noncontextual artifacts are often altered in order to make them more marketable. An example of an iconographic theme that is incorporated into the surviving media of the ancient Maya, but that is not mentioned …
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