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In its examination of religious conversion, this study thus offers a unique opportunity to explore how women and men questioned and redefined their relationships to local institutions of power and authority, including the parish clergy, the city government, and the family.

Conversion --- History --- Germany --- Church history --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing

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Conversion. --- Conversion --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij

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How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history. The result was both a new 'Persian' ethnic identity and the pairing of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family, locale and sect. This pioneering study examines revisions to memory in a wide range of cases, from Iran's imperial and administrative heritage to the Prophet Muhammad's stalwart Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi, and to memory of Iranian scholars, soldiers and rulers in the mid-seventh century.

Islam --- Conversion --- History. --- Zoroastrianism --- Relations --- Iran --- History --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Arts and Humanities

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Based on the analysis of 52 conversion narratives to various religious groups, A New Model of Religious Conversion utilizes case studies for comparison of converts' backgrounds, network influence, and conversion narratives. The author convincingly illustrates a 'fit' between the converts' background and the religion they convert to, such as between disorganized family backgrounds and highly structured religions. Conversely, those from highly structured backgrounds often convert to more 'open' groups. The book also makes it clear that not all conversions are influenced by networks or align themselves with a social constructivist view of a conversion as an 'account.' Taking converts' trajectories seriously, the author makes a strong case for the application of biographical sociology to the study of conversion and (American) sociology overall.

Conversion. --- Conversion --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Psychology. --- Case studies --- Psychology --- Etudes de cas --- Psychologie

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Dieser Band enthält die Dokumentation der ersten wissenschaftlichen Fachtagung zum Thema Flüchtlingskonversionen. Die internationalen Beitragenden beleuchten das Phänomen aus sozial- und religionswissenschaftlicher, philoso-phischer und theologischer, juristischer, politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Seit 2015 nimmt die Zahl geflohener Menschen aus mehrheitlich muslimischen Ländern, die sich im Lauf ihrer Migrationsgeschichte dem Christentum zuwenden, stark zu. Die Situation christlicher Kirchen und Gruppierungen in den Herkunftsländern befindet sich im Umbruch, und die europäischen Kirchen treffen auf neuartige Glaubensbiographien und Konversionsnarrative. Die aufnehmenden Zivilgesellschaften stehen vor einer großen Integrationsaufgabe, und die bleiberechtlichen Konsequenzen von Flüchtlingskonversionen stellen den Staat vor Herausforderungen. Die wissenschaftliche Befassung mit den vielschichtigen Aspekten des Themas ist eine dringende Aufgabe, die die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes interdisziplinär in Angriff nehmen.

Migration --- Religionswechsel --- Bleiberecht --- Taufe --- Kongressband --- Interdisziplinarität --- migration --- religious conversion --- asylum seekers --- baptism --- conference volume --- Europe.