Converts, Dropouts, Returnees, a Study of Religious Change Among Catholics
Author: Dean R. Hoge
Publisher: USCCB
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 248
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Author: Dean R. Hoge
Publisher: USCCB
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 248
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Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781555868291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dean R. Hoge
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 226
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lewis R. Rambo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 0199713545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.
Author: David Yamane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 019996498X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Christianity and particularly of Roman Catholicism has been profoundly shaped by conversion for centuries, from the first apostles to such prominent modern converts as John Henry Newman, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Graham Greene. In this work, David A. Yamane offers a study of Roman Catholic converts in contemporary America.
Author: Leslie J. Francis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 131713723X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Ordinary theology' characterizes the reflective God-talk of the great majority of churchgoers, and others who remain largely untouched by the assumptions, concepts and arguments that academic theology takes for granted. Jeff Astley coined the phrase in his innovative study, Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology, arguing that 'speaking statistically ordinary theology is the theology of God's Church'. A number of scholars have responded to this and related conceptualizations, exploring their theological implications. Other researchers have adopted the perspective in examining a range of Church practices and contexts of Christian discipleship, using the tools of empirical study. Ordinary theology research has proved to be key in uncovering people's everyday lay theology or ordinary dogmatics. Exploring Ordinary Theology presents fresh contributions from a wide range of authors, who address the theological, empirical and practical dimensions of this central feature of ordinary Christian existence and the life of the Church.
Author: Maureen K. Day
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 158768764X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete picture of vocation among young Catholic adults today using up-to-date sociological research with contributions from a broad perspective of young American Catholics.
Author: Phil Zuckerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0199393834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while also drawing upon ongoing research and suggesting ways to improve our understanding of this growing population. Offering a research- and data-based examination of the nonreligious, this book will be an invaluable source of information and a foundation for further scholarship. Written in clear, accessible language that will appeal to students and the increasingly interested general reader, The Nonreligious provides an unbiased and thorough account of relevant existing scholarship within the social sciences that bears on lived experiences of the nonreligious.