Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies (Issues in Contemporary Religion) - Softcover

 
9780304338436: Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies (Issues in Contemporary Religion)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0304338435 ISBN 13: 9780304338436
Publisher: Continuum, 1999

Synopsis

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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About the Author

M. Darroll Bryant, is professor of Religion and Culture at Renison College and Chairman of the Department of ReligiousStudies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

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Publisher
Continuum
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0304338435
ISBN 13 
9780304338436
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
348
Editor
Lamb Christopher, Bryant M. Darroll

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