Toward Faith: A Qualitative Study of How Atheists Convert to Christianity
The study of religious conversion has historically neglected how nonbelievers (i.e. atheists) come to adopt a belief in a god or gods, and thus cannot address whether findings and theories from previous research apply to atheists. In order to assess how atheists converted to Christianity, we perform...
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Creighton University
2019
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2019, Volume: 21 |
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Atheism
B Christianity B Qualitative B Conversion B Religious Change |
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