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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Oxford Univ. Press
1998
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1998, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 237-257 |
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