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Deconverted
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Author : Jeffery Childress
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-04-07
Deconverted written by Jeffery Childress 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 2022-04-07 with Religion categories.
Is the modern Christian church losing the battle against postmodern society and the current hate culture? Deconverted reflects research gathered from interviews with once self-professed Christians who have now walked away from the church and their previously deeply-held religious beliefs. With so much at risk in the lives of postmodern seekers, who is being misled and what apologetical truths can the church learn from this phenomenon?
The Deconverted Man
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Author : Chase Austin
language : en
Publisher: Chase Austin
Release Date : 2020-10-04
The Deconverted Man written by Chase Austin and has been published by Chase Austin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-04 with Religion categories.
The ultimate guide for men who have left fundamentalist Christianity. Leaving fundamentalist Christianity can be incredibly traumatic and it’s hard to know where to start rebuilding your life. It can feel like you’re starting from scratch when you leave your religious community. All the rules and regulations that used to guide your life are gone, and it feels like you’re lost in a sea of uncertainty. The Deconverted Man is here to help. This book—written specifically for men—provides practical and actionable steps for how to rebuild your life in seven key areas: money, health, family, social life, hobbies, relationships, and spirituality. With this guide in hand, you’ll be able to create a new life post-religion that is far better than before. • Gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it really means to leave fundamental Christianity—and the toll it takes on your entire life, not only your belief system. • Unique perspective—written by a man who has been there, deconverted, and has taken tangible steps to rebuilding his life in radically better ways with more authenticity. • Provides tips and actionable steps for men to rebuild their lives back better than before. • A guide that is highly detailed but at the same time offers clear advice on how to overcome obstacles so you can have a fulfilling life after Christianity or any religion. • Get the help you need to transition away from harmful religious beliefs. • Learn about how being deconverted can change things for good in all seven areas of your life (money, health, family, social life, hobbies, relationships, spirituality). • Receive encouragement and tips on how to find meaning after leaving the Christian faith. If you’re looking for help as you rebuild your life after leaving fundamentalist Christianity, look no further than The Deconverted Man. With this guide, you’ll be able to create a new life that’ll truly make you feel “born again.” Order your copy today!
Deconverted
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Author : Seth Andrews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-17
Deconverted written by Seth Andrews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-17 with Religion categories.
"...and then Noah loaded the dinosaurs onto the ark." Assertions like these seem comical until you realize that many Christian parents aren't kidding when they teach them to their children as facts. Every day, impressionable young minds are conditioned to blindly accept wild biblical tales of floating zoos, talking shrubbery, 900-year-old humans, the undead, curses, levitation, demon/human hybrids and men who obtain super-human strength from the length of their hair. Allegiance to these teachings is expected, often demanded. Curiosity is muted. Doubt is frowned upon as a sin. And for those who dare to raise a dissenting hand, the threat of Hell looms ominously. A former religious radio host raised in the cradle of Christianity, Seth Andrews battled his own doubts for many years. His attempts to reconcile faith and the facts led him to a conclusion previously unthinkable, and this once-true believer ultimately became the founder of one of the most popular atheist communities on the internet.
Deconversion
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Author : Heinz Streib
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2011-07-12
Deconversion written by Heinz Streib and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-12 with Religion categories.
This book presents case studies and empirical data of a phenomenon which increasingly gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion. There is, the authors argue, no better word than deconversion to describe processes of disengagement from religious orientations because these have much in common with conversion. Termination of membership may eventually be the final step of deconversion, but it involves biographical and psychological dynamics which can and need to be reconstructed by qualitative approaches and analyzed by quantitative instruments.In the Bielefeld-based Cross-Cultural Study on Deconversion disengagement processes from a variety of religious backgrounds in the USA and in Germany were examined, ranging from well-established religious organizations to new religious and fundamentalist groups. Nearly 1,200 persons participated in thestudy and were interviewed from 2002 to 2005. In the focus of the study are 100 deconverts from the USA and from Germany who were examined with narrative interviews, faith development interviews and an extensive questionnaire. For case study elaboration, the study followed a research design with an innovative triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data. Four chapters, corresponding to four types of deconversion, present 21 case studies. The highlights of the research project are new data on spirituality – the deconverts in particular appear to prefer a »more spiritual than religious« self-identification – and in-depth analyses of a variety of deconversion narratives with special focus on personality factors, motivation, attitudes, religious development, psychological well-being and growth, religious fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism. The results of this project which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft are of special relevance for counselling and pastoral care, for religious education and for people concerned with administration and management of religious groups and churches, but also for a wider audience interested in contemporary changes in the religious fields in the USA and Germany.
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
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Author : Jeanette Winterson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit written by Jeanette Winterson and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine
Versions Of Deconversion
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Author : John D. Barbour
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1994
Versions Of Deconversion written by John D. Barbour and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Versions of Deconversion John Barbour examines the work of a broad selection of authors in order to discover the reasons for their loss of faith and to analyze the ways in which they have interpreted that loss. For some the experience of deconversion led to another religious faith, some turned to atheism or agnosticism, and others used deconversion as a metaphor or analogy to interpret an experience of personal transformation. The loss of faith is closely related to such vital ethical and theological concerns as the role of conscience, the assessment of religious communities, the dialectical relationship between faith and doubt, and the struggle to reconcile faith with intellectual and moral integrity. This book shows the persistence and the vitality of the theme of deconversion in autobiography, and it demonstrates how the literary form and structure of autobiography are shaped by ethical critique and religious reflection. Versions of Deconversion should appeal at once to scholars in the fields of religious studies and theology who are concerned with narrative texts, to literary critics and specialists on autobiography, and to a wider audience interested in the ethical and religious significance of autobiography.
Deconverted
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Author : Seth Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Deconverted written by Seth Andrews and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author presents a memoir of his personal struggle and transformation from Christian to atheist along with his perspectives on Christian thought and beliefs.
Identity In A Secular Age
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Author : Fern Elsdon-Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Identity In A Secular Age written by Fern Elsdon-Baker and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Science categories.
Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone the many and varied ways in which it might relate to individual belief? In this multidisciplinary volume, experts in history and philosophy of science, oral history, sociology of religion, social psychology, and science communication and public engagement look beyond two warring systems of thought. They consider a far more complex, multifaceted, and distinctly more interesting picture of how differing groups along a spectrum of worldviews—including atheistic, agnostic, and faith groups—relate to and form the ongoing narrative of a necessary clash between evolution and faith. By ascribing agency to the public, from the nineteenth century to the present and across Canada and the United Kingdom, this volume offers a much more nuanced analysis of people’s perceptions about the relationship between evolutionary science, religion, and personal belief, one that better elucidates the complexities not only of that relationship but of actual lived experience.
The Oxford Handbook Of Religious Conversion
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Author : Lewis Ray Rambo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Oxford Handbook Of Religious Conversion written by Lewis Ray Rambo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Bibles categories.
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.
Semantics And Psychology Of Spirituality
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Author : Heinz Streib
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-10-16
Semantics And Psychology Of Spirituality written by Heinz Streib and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-16 with Psychology categories.
This book examines what people mean when they say they are “spiritual”. It looks at the semantics of “spirituality”, the visibility of reasons for “spiritual” preference in biographies, in psychological dispositions, in cultural differences between Germany and the US, and in gender differences. It also examines the kind of biographical consequences that are associated with “spirituality”. The book reports the results of an online-questionnaire filled out by 773 respondents in Germany and 1113 in the US, personal interviews with a selected group of more than 100 persons, and an experiment. Based on the data collected, it reports results that are relevant for a number of scientific and practical disciplines. It makes a contribution to the semantics of everyday religious language and to the cross-cultural study of religion and to many related fields as well, because “spirituality” is evaluated in relation to personality, mysticism, well-being, religious styles, generativity, attachment, biography and atheism. The book draws attention to the – new and ever changing – ways in which people give names to their ultimate concern and symbolize their experiences of transcendence.