Overview
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon.This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.
Full Product Details
Author: Lewis R. Rambo (Research Professor of Psychology and Religion, Research Professor of Psychology and Religion, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA) ,
Charles Farhadian (Professor of World Religions and Christian Mission, Professor of World Religions and Christian Mission, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 24.90cm
, Height: 6.60cm
, Length: 18.50cm
Weight: 1.406kg
ISBN: 9780195338522
ISBN 10: 0195338529
Pages: 828
Publication Date: 15 May 2014
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
an outstanding accomplishment, a mustread for anyone whose work relates to religious conversion, for academics, students, and practitioners alike. Ines W. Jindra, Sociology of Religion. Rambo and Farhadian have given us all a true gift: This book is massive, comprehensive, current, creative, stimulating, and challenging. It will remain a foundation upon which the field can continue to build for decades to come. Nathan Carlin, Pastoral Psychology
A noteworthy contribution to the popular Oxford Handbook series...A well-written, accessible, and unreservedly interdisciplinary overview of religious conversion. --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Rambo and Farhadian have given us all a true gift: This book is massive, comprehensive, current, creative, stimulating, and challenging. It will remain a foundation upon which the field can continue to build for decades to come. --Nathan Carlin, Pastoral Psychology An impressive accomplishment...Many authoritative voices on conversion are represented, and the book will be very influential in the future development of conversion studies. In addition, the chapters are well researched, well organized, and nicely written...I would recommend it to anyone studying religious conversion. --Ines W. Jindra, Pastoral Psychology A noteworthy contribution to the popular Oxford Handbook series...A well-written, accessible, and unreservedly interdisciplinary overview of religious conversion. --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Author Information
Lewis R. Rambo is Research Professor of Psychology and Religion at the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He is the author of Understanding Religious Conversion. Charles E. Farhadian is Professor of World Religions and Christian Mission at Westmont College. He is the author of Christianity, Islam, and Nationalism in Indonesia, Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices, The Testimony Project: Papua, and Introducing World Christianity.
