Amazing Conversions
Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion
This groundbreaking study uncovers fascinating new data on sudden shifts in religious and nonreligious belief. Amazing Conversions explores, for the first time ever, the reasons why converts join, and apostates go. The focus of this absorbing study is on some amazing people, with unique stories to tell those who join a religious group in spite of being raised in nonreligious (or even antireligious) families, and those who, at great personal cost, choose to leave religion in spite of having a deeply religious background. Why would an atheist's son become a Christian fundamentalist? Why would a good Catholic girl decide that she really is an at…
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Weitere Autoren: Hunsberger, Bruce E.
- ISBN: 978-1-57392-147-3
- EAN: 9781573921473
- Produktnummer: 23198521
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
Über den Autor
Bob Altemeyer (Winnipeg, Canada) is associate professor of psychology at the University of Manitoba and the recipient of the Prize in Behavioral Science Research from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Bruce E. Hunsberger (1946-2003) was professor of psychology at Wilfred Laurier University and the winner of the William James Award from the American Psychological Association for outstanding research in religion.
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