Chinese Conversion to Evangelical Christianity: The Importance of Social and Cultural Contexts

Why do immigrants abandon their traditional religion and convert to Protestant Christianity? Existing sociological theories of conversion are mostly based on studies of individuals who convert into cults. Factors of individual personality and interpersonal bonds in small networks, or assimilation mo...

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Main Author: Yang, Fenggang (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 1998
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 1998, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 237-257
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