Converting to Continuity: Temporality and Self in Eastern Orthodox Conversion Narratives
Based on interviews with converts to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States, this article documents and analyzes a narrative form in which conversion is described as the progressive discovery of a latent religious self that was part of one's life all along, or what I term a conversi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 439-460 |
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Eastern Orthodox
B Narrative B Self B Identity B Temporality B Conversion |
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