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	Religious conversion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conversion to new religious movements (NRM's) is riddled with controversies.
		Religious conversion is the adoption of new religious beliefs that differ from the convert's previous beliefs; in some cultures (e.g.
		Nowadays, conversions to Christianity in majority non-Christian countries are on the rise, alarming the governments of Iran, Algeria and China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_conversion (4120 words)

	The Psychology of Religious Conversion
		Initially, let it be admitted that while we are primarily considering the issue of religious conversion, conversion is a more general term that applies to all changes that involve a transformation of opinion from one belief to another.
		Religious conformity is the term that describes the decision to do what is religiously expected in one’s culture, for example, in Japanese culture, to follow along with the Buddhist and Shinto way of seeing things.
		As the conversion process progressed, seekers were encouraged to engage in further study of the group’s approach and to cut off their contact with those outside the group who might deplete their newfound approach.
	www.religiousfreedom.com /Conference/japan/Malony.htm (2588 words)

	Still Untouchable: The Politics of Religious Conversion
		At the time of conversion, they are assured that they are being inducted into a religious fold that is egalitarian and free from the twin curses of caste and untouchability.
		Such conversions expose the hypocrisy of the religious and political leaders who exploit the socially and economically backward groups for their own ends.
		A mass conversions of dalits to Buddhism in recent months in India poses the question once again whether religious conversion alone can improve the social and economic status of people who have been marginalized for centuries.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2661 (1344 words)

	Superch
		The fact that conversion is not essential to religious affiliating, "whether lightning conversion by the hand of God or an elaborate series of rituals in three steps, is most simply demonstrated by the fact that many groups fail to employ this concept" (Stark and Bainbridge, 199).
		Suggesting "a radical, perhaps supernatural transformation of the person who is converted" (195), the concept of conversion may not be able to account for the occurrence of multiple conversions, over a lifetime, or the inability of certain religious organizations to move, and keep, members in high levels of commitment.
		The church's conversion and commitment techniques are seemingly opposed to traditional, conservative schools of Evangelical thought, which call for exhortation, behavioral controls and one moment of divine, or "Pauline" conversion.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/superch.html (18735 words)

	The Right To Conversion By Nivedita Menon
		Genuine religious conversion, on the other hand, is understood to involve the spiritual transformation of an individual on the basis of "knowledge", both of the person's "own" religion as well as of the one to which he converts.
		onsider this - religious conversions are permissible if they are genuine, and not brought about by fraud or coercion.
		Of course, the real reason behind the Hindu right's obsession with religious conversion has nothing to do with protecting the sanctity of religion.
	www.countercurrents.org /hr-nivedita070504.htm (1138 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Religious Conversion in Shambhala
		Nevertheless, numerous examples exist of the forced conversion of Tibetan monasteries from one Buddhist sect to another or the recognition of a tulku (reincarnate spiritual master) as being of a different school than was his predecessor.
		The First Kalki was pressing for religious harmony and unity of purpose, not religious uniformity, as the means to ward off threats to society.
		In Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, conversion means to give up one's former religion and to adopt a new faith.
	www.berzinarchives.com /kalachakra/religious_conversion_shambhala.html (4864 words)

	village voice > news > Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts
		While Friedman does not usually identify his arguments as religious ones, he has exhorted moderate Jews to be as passionate as extremists, and he endorsed the war in Iraq, which he casts as a moral imperative.
		Friedman's religious beliefs are relevant because they shed light on his political ideology, which he espouses with tremendous authority.
		Presumably, these are places where readers of every political and religious persuasion can find material to inform their opinions.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0403/cotts.php (967 words)

	Sri Lanka -- Criminalizing Religious Conversion
		Becket Fund warns that tsunami aid is threatened The government of Sri Lanka is poised to introduce a bill that would outlaw religious conversions in the island nation.
		On July 22, 2004, Sri Lanka's JHU Party introduced legislation that would silence religious expression and criminalize religious conversions in the country.
		The proposed law represents a stark culmination of a wave of religious intolerance sweeping Sri Lanka.
	www.becketfund.org /index.php/case/91.html (551 words)

	The Psychology of Religious Conversion
		With few exceptions, most of the sociologists who talk about conversion have either done some form of intensive interviews with members of particular groups, or have done participation/observation research with various new religious movements, whether it be Jehovah’s Witnesses or Unification Church, or other religious groups.
		Secondly, what is very clear is that virtually all religious groups emphasize the importance of relationships with the leader of the group, and with members of the group.
		I wish that I could say that the psychology of conversion had a unified, sophisticated, coherent theory that I could give you today, and you could all walk out and say, “Ah, now I understand the psychology of conversion.” Unfortunately, what we have in fact are psychologies.
	www.religiousfreedom.com /conference/Germany/rambo.htm (3142 words)

	Hinduism Today Jan 2000
		He did not believe that religious conversions were in any way a threat to society.
		Religious conversion has become a serious subject among Indians all over the world.
		Mahatma Gandhi, during his visit to Shivagiri to meet Narayana Guru, pointedly asked, "Is religious conversion necessary for spiritual salvation?" Narayana Guru replied, "Religious conversion is not needed for spiritual salvation." Gandhiji then asked if the Hindu religion is adequate for this purpose.
	www.hinduism-today.com /archives/2000/1/2000-1-16.shtml (972 words)

	""Religious conversion and the concept of socialization: Integrating the brainwashing and drift models" by Long & Hadden" af (abstract) - Dialogcentret.dk
		Brainwashing and drift models of religious conversion appear contradictory, but each carries a partial truth, and both rely on a faulty model of socialization as internalization.
		Long, Theodore E. and Jeffrey K. Hadden, »Religious Conversion and the Concept of Socialization: Integrating the Brainwashing and Drift Models,« Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1983, 22(1):1-14.
		Applied to the study of conversion, this concept of socialization suggests new research strategies and generates new questions to be investigated.
	www.dci.dk /?artikel=508&emne=TM (281 words)

	DYNAMICS OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
		This is the only book on religious conversion which centers around the quest for personal identity and subsequent religious transformation.
		This book gives you (1) an understanding of the interior process of religious conversion as viewed not only by psychology but also from the fields of Biblical research, systematic and pastoral theology, the social sciences, and literary studies; (2) a large amount of material on
		Religious Conversion and Identity; Implications for Nurture and Ministry
	www.bham.net /releduc/expandedview/dynamics_of_religious_conversion.htm (438 words)

	religious conversion - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Religious Conversion: Is It an Adolescent Phenomenon...Istanbul, Turkey It is possible that religious conversion may be particularly likely at certain...is the most favorable time for religious conversion.
		Religious Conversion and Identity focuses mainly on the early-modern...
		The second conquest: religious conversion and the erosion of the cultural ecological core among the...Steinberg, M. Death of the Dance, Cultural Change and Religious Conversion among the Mopan Maya in Belize.
	www.questia.com /search/religious-conversion (1552 words)

	A Tribute to Hinduism
		He had also declared that "in most cases religious conversions have little to do with religion; most of them are concerns of hunger instead of the heart and every conversion usually leaves behind bitterness".
		He demanded a ban on all types of religious conversions, which was not accepted.
		Dada Dharmadhikari had raised his voice against religious conversion in the Constituent Assembly.
	www.atributetohinduism.com /articles_conversion/38.htm (932 words)

	The Story of Africa BBC World Service
		Learning to read was an essential part of Christian conversion, so that the bible could be read in English or in an African language.
		Some missionaries combined conversion with exploration and geography.
		David Livingstone, a Scottish mill worker, and the first European to cross the continent from East to West, is the obvious example.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/11chapter6.shtml (304 words)

	Religious Conversion
		Her religious activism led her to other efforts, especially to help musicians, in distress.
		Williams' conversion led her to compose sacred music in the jazz idiom.
		She had vowed to donate 10 percent of the proceeds from the recording to aid the poor, although low sales failed to generate the profits she had hoped for.
	newarkwww.rutgers.edu /ijs/mlw/religious_1.html (716 words)

	HANDBOOK OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
		It gives you virtually everything you need to know about religious conversion.
		a complete and integrated view of religious conversion.
		It is a book about conversion rather than a book about how to convert-though those persons wishing to convert others will find a tremendous treasure trove of information to heighten their success.
	www.bham.net /releduc/expandedview/handbook_of_religious_conversion.htm (394 words)

	Law.com - High Court Rules Death Row Inmate's Religious Conversion Properly Considered at Trial
		"Testimony about a religious conversion spanning one year and nine months may well have been considered altogether insignificant in light of the brutality of the crimes, the prior offenses, and a proclivity for committing violent acts against women," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.
		The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a jury which sentenced a convicted killer to death had properly taken into account his religious conversion, even though a prosecutor incorrectly argued it was irrelevant.
		His lawyers have said that about 70 cases involve death row inmates who claim that mitigating factors after a crime -- such as a religious conversion -- were not properly considered because of inadequate jury instructions.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1111485916264 (540 words)

	Understanding Religious Conversion
		The main disappointment with his book is the scarcity of studies and examples cited.lt;pgt;Personally, I would rather study conversion from the wider perspectives of general changes in religious experiences, commitments, and practices in many cultures.
		Although he tries to cover many kinds of conversion, inluding intensifying commitment to neglected religious practices, he seems pre-occupied with conversion to monotheistic religions in colonial situations and modern American new religions.
		Reading this book, I concluded that the notion of conversion is meaningless in religious studies, one more projection from limited Western experiences onto inappropriate situations in other contexts.
	www.history-us.com /Understanding_Religious_Conversion_0300065159.html (239 words)

	Religious Conversion in India
		As an engagement of sociology, theology, and history in the lively and sometimes vitriolic discourse on religious conversion in India, this volume will be an important and significant resource for students, teachers, and researchers in these diverse fields.
		The modes, motivations, and symbolic meanings which Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism attach to religious conversion are identified and transformations of sect, caste, and tribe explored across space and time.
		The experience of conversion is viewed as a terrain of multiple and diverse possibilities that focus on new boundaries, identities, beliefs, and practices.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/11598.htm (155 words)

	Hunt's Religious Conversion
		The painter's statement that The Light of the World recorded an actual experience of religious conversion appears in a letter of August 19, 1883 quoted in William Bell Scott, Autobiographical Notes...
		Hunt's Religious Conversion: A Note to "Shadows Cast by the Light of the World"
		I have discussed Hunt's conversion experience in relation to his art in "William Holman Hunt's 'The Shadow of Death,'" Bulletin of the John Rylands Library of Manchester, LV, 1972, 213-16.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/painting/whh/shadlow/lowconv.html (97 words)

	CONVERTED KASHMIR: Memorial of Mistakes
		His policies were liberal towards Hindus but the process of religious conversion continued with a slow pace.
		For fulfilling his cruel desire one Subedar of Kashmir, Iftihar Khan, played a "bloody Holi" with the Pandits for increasing the pace of religious conversion.
		Guru Teg Bahadur's religious steadfastness and his nationalism and his unique amd matchless sacrifice would be remembered for ages.
	www.kashmir-information.com /ConvertedKashmir/Chapter14.html (3512 words)

	In Midcareer, a Turn to Faith to Fill a Void - New York Times
		Miers rarely wore her religious thinking on her sleeve, her gradual tilt toward conservative views resulted in some uneasy moments when she took a break from a lucrative law practice and delved into politics with a campaign for the Dallas City Council in 1989, running for a nonpartisan post.
		Miers said she had been in favor in her younger years of a woman's right to have an abortion, but her views evolved against abortion, influenced largely by her born-again religious beliefs, said Lorlee Bartos, a Democratic campaign consultant in Dallas who managed Ms.
		She appeared as a candidate at the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, but even though she said gays should have the same civil rights as others in society, she stopped short of endorsing a repeal of a Texas law criminalizing gay sexual activity.
	www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/politicsspecial1/05miers.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=46f5f2b4Q2FQ27Q24KsQ27Q3BznF!zzS7Q277--mQ27Q5B-Q27-mQ27kzY3S3nFQ27kzY3S3nFFkKn3WYQ5BQ27-mQ3F3K!FpQ51SQ3FY (914 words)

	The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Quotes on Religious Conversion
		A physician being mentioned who had lost his practice, because his whimsically changing his religion had made people distrustful of him, I maintained that this was unreasonable, as religion is unconnected with medical skill.
		He that never finds his error till it hinders his progress towards wealth or honour, will not be thought to love truth only for herself.
		This was the then state of Popery [soon after the ascension of King James]; every artifice was used to show it in its fairest form; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance sufficiently attractive."
	www.samueljohnson.com /reliconv.html (267 words)

	Comparative Religious Conversion
		Primary sources for Religious Conversion may include microform and media formats, etc. A brief sampling of some primary sources available at UCI Libraries, with call numbers (all in Langson Library) supplied in bold after the resource title, is listed below.
		This guide provides an introductory overview of library/bibliographic research in history focusing on key strategies and sources for researching topics related to the history of religious conversion.
		Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo.
	sun3.lib.uci.edu /~jariel/History190ReligiousConversion.html (3346 words)

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	Telegraph Property A religious conversion
		His new church, St Mark's in Tollington Park, just off the Seven Sisters Road, has a very different catchment area compared with the wealthy streets from which is drawn his old congregation: it is overlooked by a large council estate and lies in one of the most ethnically and religiously mixed corners of London.
		Moreover, it is just a few hundred yards from the Finsbury Park Mosque, the former base of Abu Hamza, the extremist imam who has been charged with race hate crimes and soliciting the murder of non-Muslims.
		He will also have to get used to life without his vicarage and gardens at Holy Trinity Brompton where, a few weeks ago, his congregation bade him farewell with a performance by the pipe band of the London Scottish Regiment.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2005/08/15/prreligion15.xml&sSheet=/property/2005/08/15/ixpmain12.html (945 words)

	The Prague Post Online
		Her decision to explore Catholic dogma and religious theories grew from curiosities that developed as a teenager.
		We need to offer an alternative, to educate young people on values, but not just religious values."
		Changes made in the past year have already affected the school's dynamics.
	www.praguepost.com /P03/2002/Art/1204/news1.php (943 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		Barna's survey of 1,618 adults found that 13 million adults (18 percent of those who saw it) altered their religious behavior, and 11 million (16 percent) changed their religious beliefs, after seeing the movie.
		(RNS) A new poll says 11 million people changed their religious beliefs after seeing Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," but only a tiny fraction of movie-goers became Christians after seeing the film.
		The survey, by the Ventura, Calif.-based Barna Group, said the film about the death of Jesus was remarkably effective at drawing attention to the Christian savior, even if it persuaded few to make a profession of faith.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/149/story_14939_1.html (441 words)

	NPR : Commentary: A Religious Conversion
		But when Greg called to talk about becoming a Catholic, Paul realized he did not want to witness his brother's conversion -- but he went anyway.
		All Things Considered, March 12, 2003 · Commentator Paul Ford spent his life revering his much older brother from afar.
	www.npr.org /features/feature.php?wfId=1190444 (117 words)

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