Crises and Conversions
Author: Minoo Mirshahvalad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 3031558774
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The Crisis of Conversion
Author: J. August Higgins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book attempts to identify a central problem within the North American evangelical imagination around the issue of religious experience and its relationship to the basic hermeneutical stance of biblical and theological interpretation. The relatively recent emergence of the academic discipline of Christian spirituality offers a new set of methodological insights that may help to mediate the theological impasse between more conservative and progressive perspectives concerning the appropriate role of human experience for evangelical thought and practice. Specifically, we will explore the experience of religious conversion that lies at the center of evangelical spirituality in critical dialogue with the challenges and opportunities brought about by recent philosophical discourse and the postmodern turn, variously understood.
Finding Opportunities in Crisis
Author: Paulus Pimomo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1848882254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This is a multidisciplinary book on crises of all kinds from different parts of the world. Interesting? Not unless crises can be made to serve as opportunities for the future. Fifteen chapters present accounts of empirical research into personal and group crises where people have not just survived their losses and grief but have in most cases gone on to meaningful future growth. Tragedy from natural calamity, war, accident; crisis in the family and at work; despair from physical and spiritual displacement; helplessness from political and economic disenfranchisement – from Australia and America to Asia and Europe. These subjects receive expert multidisciplinary scrutiny with one common goal in mind. To account for the ways in which recovery and regrowth can take place. But this is not a book about the phoenix’s fable. It is empirical, evaluative, and pragmatic. It is about turning crises into opportunities.
Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe
Author: Klaus Roth
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 3643907915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them: on their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes. (Series: Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 19) [Subject: Sociology, Balkan Studies, Politics, Migration, Crisis Management]
The Long Crisis
Author: Benjamin Holtzman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0190843705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLow-income housing in crisis -- From renters to owners -- Remaking public parks -- Patrolling city streets -- The trouble with development -- The governance of homelessness and public space.
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
Author: Marc David Baer
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 0195338529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world.
Shalom, the Spirit and Pentecostal Conversion
Author: Grace Milton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-17
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 900430181X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Shalom, the Spirit and Pentecostal Conversion, Grace Milton presents a uniquely practical-theological model of Pentecostal conversion, centered on empirical data from a congregational case study. Pentecostal-Charismatic conversion is commonly equated with a dramatic, “Damascus road” type event, which directly opposes prevailing theories within the social sciences that conversion is a more gradual process over time. This raises the question, how far do these Pentecostal stereotypes reflect lived experience? In this book, for the first time, the experiences and beliefs of ordinary Pentecostal believers are drawn into conversation with conversion theories from the human sciences (sociology, psychology and anthropology) and theology. The result is a distinctly Pentecostal model of conversion, which interprets religious transformation through the theological lens of Shalom.
Religious Conversion Movements in South Asia
Author: Geoffrey A. Oddie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780700704729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese papers address the issues of religious conversion and religious conversion movements - a topic which has rapidly become the central issue of many scholarly debates. Many religions are discussed along with other relevent issues
The Psychology of Religion, Fourth Edition
Author: Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2009-07-15
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1606233920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholarly and comprehensive yet accessible, this state-of-the-science work is widely regarded as the definitive graduate-level psychology of religion text. The authors synthesize classic and contemporary empirical research on numerous different religious groups. Coverage includes religious thought, belief, and behavior across the lifespan; links between religion and biology; the forms and meaning of religious experience; the social psychology of religious organizations; and connections to morality, coping, mental health, and psychopathology. Every chapter features thought-provoking quotations and examples that bring key concepts to life. New to This Edition *Revised and updated with the latest theories, methods, and empirical findings.*Many new research examples.*Restructured with fewer chapters for better “fit” with a typical semester.*More attention to the differences between religion and spirituality*Covers emerging topics: genetics and neurobiology, positive psychology, atheism, and more.
Understanding Religion
Author: Moojan Momen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 1786077477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the aid of hundreds of photographs, an in-depth exploration of the role of religion An innovative, thematic presentation of the role of religion in human society, from traditional cultures to the modern world, this comprehensive account will prove invaluable for students, experts or the interested general readers seeking an understanding of the nature and significance of diverse religious experience. Drawing from all major religious traditions in the world, as well as a variety of non-religious disciplines such as psychology, philosophy and sociology, Momen's informative study covers everything from art and history to theology and the World Wide Web.
