Toward an Integrative Theory of Religious Conversion: A Review Essay of The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion by Lewis R. Rambo and Charles F. Farhadian (2014)
This paper, a review essay of The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (2014), first summarizes some of its social scientific chapters and then attempts to begin building an integrative theory of religious conversion. This theory is based upon a critical realist perspective and draws on Paloutzia...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2016
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2016, Volume: 65, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-343 |
Review of: | The Oxford handbook of religious conversion (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2014) (Wenger Jindra, Ines)
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion |
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Social scientific study of religious conversion
B Book review B RAMBO, Lewis R B ECLECTIC psychotherapy B Critical Realism B Integrative theory B INTERDISCIPLINARY research B Religious Conversion B Culture B CONVERSION (Religion) |
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Summary: | This paper, a review essay of The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (2014), first summarizes some of its social scientific chapters and then attempts to begin building an integrative theory of religious conversion. This theory is based upon a critical realist perspective and draws on Paloutzian's multi-level interdisciplinary paradigm of conversion research, recent developments in the cultural sociology of religion, and the language of conversion, and it could be extended to integrate additional levels. The paper ends with a brief discussion of human flourishing and the possible role of conversion in it. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
Reference: | Kritik in "Response to Handbook Reviewers (2016)"
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-014-0635-z |