Communities Of The Converted
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Communities Of The Converted
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Author : Catherine Wanner
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-02
Communities Of The Converted written by Catherine Wanner and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Social Science categories.
After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic embrace of ecstatic experience, replete with a belief in faith healing. Catherine Wanner's historically informed ethnography, the first book on evangelism in the former Soviet Union, shows how once-marginal Ukrainian evangelical communities are now thriving and growing in social and political prominence. Many Soviet evangelicals relocated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, expanding the spectrum of evangelicalism in the United States and altering religious life in Ukraine. Migration has created new transnational evangelical communities that are now asserting a new public role for religion in the resolution of numerous social problems. Hundreds of American evangelical missionaries have engaged in "church planting" in Ukraine, which is today home to some of the most active and robust evangelical communities in all of Europe. Thanks to massive assistance from the West, Ukraine has become a hub for clerical and missionary training in Eurasia. Many Ukrainians travel as missionaries to Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. In revealing the phenomenal transformation of religious life in a land once thought to be militantly godless, Wanner shows how formerly socialist countries experience evangelical revival. Communities of the Converted engages issues of migration, morality, secularization, and global evangelism, while highlighting how they have been shaped by socialism. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. The open access edition is available at Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Conversion And Continuity
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Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
language : en
Publisher: PIMS
Release Date : 1990
Conversion And Continuity written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and has been published by PIMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Conversation Risk And Conversion
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Author : Michael Cowan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Conversation Risk And Conversion written by Michael Cowan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Religion categories.
In Conversation, Risk & Conversion, two of America's acknowledged leaders and most trusted thinkers on the phenomenon of small Christian communities explore their growth, development, and impact in the U.S. over the last decade. Cowan and Lee address issues such as the mission of SCCs and conflict resolution within them. Most importantly, by reflecting on both the internal and public dimensions of SCCs, Conversation, Risk & Conversion offers a cogent social analysis of the Catholic church in the U.S. today.
The Transformation Of Man
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Author : Rosemary Haughton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Transformation Of Man written by Rosemary Haughton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Religion categories.
The Conversion
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Author : David Jezierski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-28
The Conversion written by David Jezierski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with categories.
The Conversion is a story of one man's return to the faith. It recounts his story from a Catholic upbringing, his falling away and his struggles for years with sin in a fallen world that encourages it, and his return from the brink. It also deals with his journey through various denominations and communities of believers and the challenges that conversion & true commitment to the Lord is certain to bring.
Conversion Continuity And Change
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Sage
Release Date : 1998-04
Conversion Continuity And Change written by and has been published by Sage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04 with categories.
This book examines the processes of conversion, continuity and change in a Goan Catholic community. The analysis shifts from a focus on the people in Goa to a consideration, through ethnographic material, of present-day patterns and modes of persistence and change in a rural Catholic community. The author discusses individual and collective ritual modes and issues of caste conflict as manifested in church celebrations. The issues explored include kinship and the implication of Catholicism for rules of marriage, ideas about inheritance and gender, reasons for conversion and the clash of traditions. Overall, this book provides a rich analysis of the interplay between Christianity and colonialism as well as the emerging disharmony of tradition in a new social context. It also explores issues relating to the sociological study of convert communities in India in a comparative perspective.
Becoming Jewish
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Author : Netanel Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-14
Becoming Jewish written by Netanel Fisher and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Religion categories.
One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.
Preaching To Convert
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Author : John Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-11-13
Preaching To Convert written by John Fletcher and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals. Author John Fletcher frames these activities, from door-to-door proselytizing to the spirited sermons of superstar televangelists, as examples of activist performance, broadly defined here as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors, and if evangelicals have appeared at all, they often appear as one-dimensional forces of ignorance or bigotry against which brave (left-leaning) activists must fight. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. In other words, evangelicals are activist performers par excellence. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in twenty-first–century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multi-million-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.
Bastards And Believers
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Author : Theodor Dunkelgrün
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-03-06
Bastards And Believers written by Theodor Dunkelgrün and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-06 with Religion categories.
A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that of Jewish people. It can be used to talk about Christians becoming Muslim (or vice versa), Christians "born again," or premodern efforts to Christianize (or Islamize) indigenous populations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It can even describe how modern, secular people discover spiritual creeds and join religious communities. Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel. In between, Andrew S. Jacobs writes about the allure of becoming an "other" in late Antiquity; Ephraim Kanarfogel considers Rabbinic attitudes and approaches toward conversion to Judaism in the Middles Ages; and Paola Tartakoff ponders the relationship between conversion and poverty in medieval Iberia. Three case studies, by Javier Castaño, Claude Stuczynski, and Anne Oravetz Albert, focus on different aspects of the experience of Spanish-Portuguese conversos. Michela Andreatta and Sarah Gracombe discuss conversion narratives; and Elliott Horowitz and Ellie Shainker analyze Eastern European converts' encounters with missionaries of different persuasions. Despite the differences between periods, contexts, and sources, two fundamental and mutually exclusive notions of human life thread the essays together: the conviction that one can choose one's destiny and the conviction that one cannot escapes one's past. The history of converts presented by Bastards and Believers speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life. Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Javier Castaño, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Netanel Fisher, Sarah Gracombe, Elliott Horowitz, Andrew S. Jacobs, Sara Japhet, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Pawel Maciejko, Anne Oravetz Albert, Ellie Shainker, Claude Stuczynski, Paola Tartakoff.
School S For Conversion
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Author : Rutba House
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-01-14
School S For Conversion written by Rutba House and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-14 with Religion categories.
Throughout the history of the church, monastic movements have emerged to explore new ways of life in the abandoned places of society. School(s) for Conversion is a communal attempt to discern the marks of a new monasticism in the inner-cities and forgotten landscapes of the Empire that is called America.