Religious conversion : contemporary practices and controversies /
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Cassell, 1999. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Issues in contemporary religion Issues in contemporary religion. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196030 |
Summary: | Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message. Other religions have been less concerned with conversion except in so far as it has been a negative force for them to confront. This study explores how conversion has been understood by different religions during different eras, and includes a survey of the textual, legal, ritual, historic and experiential dimensions of the phenomenon of conversion. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780826437136 0826437133 9780304338436 0304338427 0304338435 |