Religious conversion : contemporary practices and controversies

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Part 1 Conversion - theoretical perspectives: converting -stages of religious change, Lewis R. Rambo and Charles E. Farhadian conversion, inward and outward, Donald Taylor conversion - up from evangelicalism or the pentecostal and charismatic experience, Frank K. Flinn. Part 2 Conversion in the world's religions: conversion as a process leading to enlightenment - the Buddhist perspective, Christopher Lamb conversion to Judaism - a tale of the good, the bad and the ungrateful slanders or saviours, Rabbi Rodney Marriner conversion from within and without in Chinese religion, Jordan Paper contra conversion - the case of the Zoroastrians of India, Homi B. Dala conversion - a Hindu/Ghandian perspective, K.L. Seshagiri Rao conversion to Islam - the Qur'anic paradigm, Yasin Dutton conversion in the Sikh tradition, Doris R. Jakobsh. Part 3 Conversion in Christianity: conversion in Christianity - from without and from within, M. Darrol Bryant charismatic conversion in the light of Augustine's confessions, Karla Poewe conversion in an African tradition, Irving Hexham the Benedictine vow Conversio Morum, Dame Macrina Sitzia. Part 4 Contemporary cases of conversion: coming home and coming out pagan (but not converting), Graham Harvey continuing conversion - a personal journey, Father Tim Edgar the story of Darshan Singh, a French convert, Darshan Singh Rudel belonging to a cult or new religious movement - act of freewill of mind control, Rev Martin Eggleton being Hindu in North America - the experience of a western convert, Tamai Krishna Goswami cult conversions - controversy and clarification, Lorne L. Dawson rediscovering Islam - a Muslim journey of faith, Sophie Gilliat.

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