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

Lamb, Christopher [Editor]; Bryant, M. Darroll [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0304338435 / ISBN 13: 9780304338436

Published by Continuum, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies (Issues in Contemporary Religion)
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304338435
• ISBN 13: 9780304338436
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 20 ounces

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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.

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.