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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"deconversion"”.
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Thank God I'm an Atheist: Deconversion Narratives on the Internet
Deconversion narratives - autobiographical accounts of how one became an atheist - now make up a substantial portion of atheist discourse on the internet. By analyzing the discourse employed on Richard Dawkins' Converts' Corner and exchristian.net, this thesis examines how several recurrent …
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I Used to Speak in Tongues: Spirituality and Pentecostal Deconversion Narratives
This dissertation examines Pentecostal deconversion narratives in memoirs by Kim Barnes and Dennis Covington, in novels and short stories by Lee Smith, and in promotional interviews with Katy Perry and Megan Fox. They feature protagonists who grow out of Pentecostalism. In most cases, they are …
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When God Dies: Deconversion from Theism as Analogous to the Experience of Death
… features of this transition, which is known as "deconversion,” can be thought of as potentially analogous, both psychologically and subjectively, to the experience of another's death as an objective environmental change. I provide anthropological and psychological evidence that believers often …