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Author : Ulrich Luig
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 375349299X

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Conversion as a Social Process presents a detailed and multi-facetted account of the genesis of an African mission church in Southern Zambia. Its main theme is the transformation of European missionary Christianity into an important medium for Africans to negotiate creatively the challenges of the modern world. The first part of this case study scrutinizes the contextual conditions, and the consequences, of the translation process of the European missionary message into the forms of African culture and modes of thought. The second part analyses the developments of post-colonial and post-missionary African Christianity in a rural setting. It argues that Christian ethics and world view offer new means of self-identification in a complex world. Drawing on local oral sources, archival material and ethnographic literature the book represents a new genre of intercultural Church history.

Author : Donald L. Gelpi
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809137961

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Using reflections, exercises, and suggestions for prayer and group sharing, this practical book explores five forms of conversion, the seven dynamics that structure the process and the significance for conversion of sacramental worship.

Author : Arnold M. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136275940

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This is Volume VI in of eighteen a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1962, this book offers the interactionist approach when looking at human behaviour and social processes. This book shows that interaction theory can provide us with a body of significant testable propositions regarding the relationship of self and society.

Author : Anselm Leonard Strauss
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
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Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202369051

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The essays gathered in this volume contain analyses based on the general action perspective of Chicago sociology and, in particular, on the contributions of Anselm L. Strauss, whose lengthy achievement this volume honors.

Author : Serge Moscovici
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135070296

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This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internationally renowned figure, whose untimely death left a void in the fields of socio-developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and research into social representations. Duveen's original and comprehensiv

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 9789042917538

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In the terms of Durkheimian sociology, conversion is a fait social. Although they are rarely treated as a cultural phenomenon, conversions can obviously be examined for the norms, values and presuppositions of the cultures in which they take place. Thus conversion can help us to shed light on a particular culture. At the same time, the term evokes a dramatic appeal that suggests a kind of suddenness, although in most cases conversion implies a more gradual process of establishing and defining a new - religious - identity. From 21-24 May, 2003, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'Cultures of Conversion'. The contributions have been edited in two volumes, which pay special attention to the modes of language and idiom in conversion literature, the meaning and sense of religious-ideological discourse, the variety of rhetorical tropes, and the effects of the conversion narrative with allusions to religious or political conventions and idealizations. The present volume offers in-depth studies of conversion that are mainly taken from the history of India, Islam and Judaism, ranging from the Byzantine period to the new Muslimas of the West. The other volume, Paradigms, Poetics and Politics of Conversion, in addition to stimulating case studies, contains theoretical contributions on the theory of conversion, with special attention to the rational choice theory and to the history of research into conversion.

Author : Eileen Barker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780754665151

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This book is a collection of essays written in Beckford's honour, drawing on a number of religious themes that have been central to Beckford's interests, whilst also offering a significant contribution to our understanding of the wider society. A central theme is modernity (and its relation to the post-modern), and how religion affects and is affected by the dynamics of contemporary society, with the primary focus of many of the chapters being a concern with how society copes with the minority religions that have become visible with the globalising tendencies of contemporary society.

Author : Ulrich Luig
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3753417343

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Conversion as a Social Process presents a detailed and multi-facetted account of the genesis of an African mission church in Southern Zambia. Its main theme is the transformation of European missionary Christianity into an important medium for Africans to negotiate creatively the challenges of the modern world. The first part of this case study scrutinizes the contextual conditions, and the consequences, of the translation process of the European missionary message into the forms of African culture and modes of thought. The second part analyses the developments of post-colonial and post-missionary African Christianity in a rural setting. It argues that Christian ethics and world view offer new means of self-identification in a complex world. Drawing on local oral sources, archival material and ethnographic literature the book represents a new genre of intercultural Church history.