Violent Conversion

Author : Linda van de Kamp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011527
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Conversion written by Linda van de Kamp and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today.

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066995
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversion written by Ira Katznelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or large. It may be the result of active missionary efforts, instrumental decisions, or intellectual or spiritual attraction to a different doctrine and practices. In order to investigate these multiple meanings, and how they may differ across time and space, this collection ranges far and wide across medieval and early modern Europe and beyond. From early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation of the eastern Mediterranean to Reformation Germany, the volume highlights salient features and key concepts that define religious conversion, particular the Jewish, Muslim and Christian experiences. By probing similarities and variations, continuities and fissures, the volume also extends the range of conversion to focus on matters less commonly examined, such as competition for the meaning of sacred space, changes to bodies, patterns of gender, and the ways conversion has been understood and narrated by actors and observers. In so doing, it promotes a layered approach that deepens inquiry by identifying and suggesting constellations of elements that both compose particular instances of conversion and help make systematic comparisons possible by indicating how to ask comparable questions of often vastly different situations.

Author : Katherine Howe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147511550
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversion written by Katherine Howe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe. It’s senior year, and St. Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the school’s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. The mystery illness spreads to the school's popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. "[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."—USA Today "...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."—The New York Times "A chilling guessing game . . . that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Author : Martijn Oosterbaan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271080647
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmitting the Spirit written by Martijn Oosterbaan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its successfully incorporating native cosmologies in new religious frameworks. This volume probes for more complex explanations to this phenomenon in the favelas of Brazil, once one of the most Catholic nations in the world. Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and drawing from religious studies, anthropology of religion, and media theory, Transmitting the Spirit argues that the Pentecostal movement’s growth is due directly to its ability to connect politics, entertainment, and religion. Examining religious and secular media—music and magazines, political ads and telenovelas—Martijn Oosterbaan shows how Pentecostal leaders progressively appropriate and recategorize cultural forms according to the religion’s cosmologies. His analysis of the interrelationship among evangélicos distributing doctrine, devotees’ reception and interpretation of nonreligious messaging, perceptions of the self and others by favela dwellers, and the slums of urban Brazil as an entity reveals Pentecostalism’s remarkable capacity to engage with the media influences that shape daily life in economically vulnerable urban areas. An eye-opening look at Pentecostalism, media, society, and culture in the turbulent favelas of Brazil, this book sheds new light on both the evolving role of religion in Latin America and the proliferation of religious ideas and practices in the postmodern world.

Author : Richard Mant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Tracts, Intended to Convey Correct Notions of Regeneration and Conversion, written by Richard Mant and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard MANT (successively Bishop of Killaloe, and of Down, Connor and Dromore.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Tracts, intended to convey correct notions of Regeneration and Conversion ... Extracted from the Bampton Lecture of 1812 ... A new edition written by Richard MANT (successively Bishop of Killaloe, and of Down, Connor and Dromore.) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard MANT (successively Bishop of Killaloe, and of Down, Connor and Dromore.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two tracts, intended to convey correct notions of regeneration and conversion, according to the sense of Holy Scripture, and of the Church of England. Extracted from the Bampton lecture of 1812 ... A new edition written by Richard MANT (successively Bishop of Killaloe, and of Down, Connor and Dromore.) and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Claerhout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000571130
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversion written by Sarah Claerhout and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the issue of religious conversion, which has been a site of conflict in India for several centuries. It discusses wide-ranging themes such as conversion, education, and reform in colonial India; the process and practices of conversion in Christian Europe; Gandhi, conversion, and the equality of religions; perspectives from Hindu nationalism, secularism, and religious minorities; religious freedom and the limits of propagating religion; and conversion in constitutional law, commissions, and courts, to chart new directions for research on religion, tradition, and conversion. Tracing developments from the 19th-century colonial era to contemporary times, the book analyses cultural background frameworks and the origins of religious conversion and its conceptualisation in Western Christianity. It further delves into how Indian culture and its traditions have shaped responses to conversion. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of critical humanities, religion, cultural studies, sociology of religion, comparative religion, philosophy, anthropology, theology, Indology, history, politics, postcolonial studies, critical theory, and South Asian studies.

Author : Marta Szada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009426443
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity written by Marta Szada and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers new insights into early medieval Christianity, exploring how religious diversity and politics shaped post-Roman Europe.

Author : Ankur Barua
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317538587
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating 'Conversion' in Hinduism and Christianity written by Ankur Barua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu and Christian debates over the meanings, motivations, and modalities of ‘conversion’ provide the central connecting theme running through this book. It focuses on the reasons offered by both sides to defend or oppose the possibility of these cross-border movements, and shows how these reasons form part of a wider constellation of ideas, concepts, and practices of the Christian and the Hindu worlds. The book draws upon several historical case-studies of Christian missionaries and of Hindus who encountered these missionaries. By analysing some of the complex negotiations, intersections, and conflicts between Hindus and Christians over the question of ‘conversion’, it demonstrates that these encounters revolve around three main contested themes. Firstly, who can properly ‘speak for the convert’? Secondly, how is ‘tolerating’ the religious other connected to an appraisal of the other’s viewpoints which may be held to be incorrect, inadequate, or incomplete? Finally, what is, in fact, the ‘true Religion’? The book demonstrates that it is necessary to wrestle with these questions for an adequate understanding of the Hindu and Christian debates over ‘conversion.’ Questioning what ‘conversion’ precisely is, and why it has been such a volatile issue on India’s political-legal landscape, the book will be a useful contribution to studies of Hinduism, Christianity and Asian Religion and Philosophy.