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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"conversion narratives"”.
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Networks, [Mis]trust, and Pentecostal Conversion: narratives of divergent pathways among small Black entrepreneurs in Tshwane
… the entrepreneurial consequences of Pentecostal conversion. These intersect with, and extend far beyond, the networks of small black entrepreneurs, affecting issues at the very heart of entrepreneurship such as risk taking and proactiveness. I borrow the concept of 'cultural holes' to illustrate …
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Fifth-Century Views of Conversion: A Comparison of Conversion Narratives in the Church Histories of Sozomen and Socrates Scholasticus
… from Socrates' is in the author's view of conversion from paganism to Christianity. Sozomen's view is more process-oriented and more transformational than Socrates'.In this thesis, Sozomen's and Socrates' views of conversion are explored through an analysis of conversion narratives found in …
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Conversion & Community: Revisiting Modern Protestant Anxieties Over “Pietistic Conversion” in Light of Conversion Narratives From the First Great Awakening
… theological concerns with the notion of conversion by examining the operative theologies of conversion implicit in 18th-century anglophone conversion narratives. A number of modern protestant theologians have expressed significant worries over what is regularly referred to as “pietistic …
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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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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… and writing in five genres: devotional books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. Devotional books became the instrument of private spirituality for Catholics, Anglicans, and radical Protestants alike, as religious repression of various sects and their public …
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Drawn Out In Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, And Evangelical Lay Women's Writing In Eighteenth Century England
… of print, and in turn, how their religious narratives were shaped by these discourses. Chapters on women's conversion narratives, moral literature for children, and religious poetry demonstrate the ways that personal spiritual experience prompted engagement with an evangelical public sphere …
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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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Ruptured Lives: Narrative Accounts of US American Adult Converts to Evangelical Christianity over the Life Course
… discussions regarding the rupturing effect that conversions to Christianity have in indigenous contexts. Individuals who have converted to Christianity from indigenous religions frequently speak of a disruption between their pre-conversion and post-conversion selves and social worlds. …
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Becoming ‘Jewish’ believing in Jesus? Conversion, gender and ethnicity in the production of the Judaising Evangelical subject
… of this trend. Focusing particularly on women’s conversion narratives, this study investigates the reasons why Charismatic Evangelical Brazilians are actively embracing a version of Judaism that requires them to follow the strict dress codes and purity laws of Orthodox Jews while believing in …
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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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RHETORICS OF CONSUMPTION: IDENTITY, CONFRONTATION, AND CORPORATIZATION IN THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN MOVEMENT
… with movement advocates, and vegetarian conversion narratives, collected through a national survey. The author explores the use and consequences of unintentional, religious, and embodied rhetoric as means of confrontation and conversion in the ethical vegetarian movement.In this …
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Conversion to Islam and Family Relations in Contemporary Britain
… explores the role of kinship relations in conversion to Islam in contemporary Britain. While the Pauline notion of conversion, which is a Christian concept, presupposes radical change brought on by an outer event, narratives of conversion to Islam convey a sense of continuity, where …
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Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity.
… growth through a record of daily activities; the conversion narrative, which made public one's theological assurance of God's grace; and the jeremiad, a sermon form designed to remind Puritans of their Covenant with God. To her contemporaries, Rowlandson served as an example of God's Providence. …