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Religious Conversion : Contemporary Practices and Controversies
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780304338436
- ISBN-10: 0304338435
- Publisher: Continuum
- Publish Date: October 1999
- Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.12 x 1.03 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.24 pounds
- Page Count: 348
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