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Deconversion : qualitative and quantitative results from cross-cultural research in Germany and the United States of America
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ISBN: 3666604390 1280991003 9786613762610 3647604399 Year: 2009 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

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Hauptbeschreibung This book presents case studies and empirical data of a phenomenon which increasingly gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion. There is, the authors argue, no better word than deconversion to describe processes of disengagement from religious orientations because these have much in common with conversion. Termination of membership may eventually be the final step of deconversion, but it involves biographical and psychological dynamics which can and need to be reconstructed by qualitative approaches and analyzed by quantitative instruments.In the B


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Deconversion revisited : biographical studies and psycho-metric analyses ten years later
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ISBN: 3666568688 Year: 2021 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

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"Deconversion is a dynamical biographical process with long-term, slowly changing causes and consequences. Based on quantitative and qualitive data, Deconversion Revisited presents ten longitudinal case studies representing the lifespan from early adulthood to old age. These case studies are based on reinterviews with the Faith Development Interview and questionnaire data ten years later. The data yield insight in stability and change of biographies, faith development, psychological well-being and coping with disengagement from a variety of religious backgrounds." --


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Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
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ISBN: 0874217563 087421758X 9780874217582 9780874217568 0874217571 9780874217575 9780874217568 9780874217575 Year: 2009 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, as

Graceful exits
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ISBN: 1282071459 9786612071454 0253110718 9780253110718 9780253343161 025334316X 9781282071452 025334316X 6612071451 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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The personal narratives of nine 20th-century Catholic female authors -- Monica Baldwin, Antonia White, Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, Mary Daly, Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey, Karen Armstrong, and Patricia Hampl -- speak eloquently about the process of departure from the church and its institutions. This study explores each author's breaking of the taboo associated with women leaving their ""proper place."" It locates five themes at the heart of all of their narratives: reversal, boundary crossing, dia


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Leaving Fundamentalism : Personal Stories
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ISBN: 1554586658 1282166824 9786613809896 1554580838 1435656334 9781435656338 9781554580835 9781554580262 1554580269 9781554586653 9781282166820 6613809896 Year: 2008 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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In a time when religious conservatives have placed their faith and values at the forefront of the so-called ""culture wars,"" this book is extremely relevant. The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services, and church life, and promote an understanding of those who have been deeply involved in the conservative Christian church. These autobiographies come from within the congregations and homes of religious fundamentalists, where their highly idealized faith, in all its complexities and problems, meets the reality of ever


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Christian Martyrs under Islam : Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World
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ISBN: 9780691179100 0691179107 0691184186 069120313X 9780691184186 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy.Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.


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Utträdet ur Finlands lutherska kyrka : kyrkomedlemskapet under religionsfrihet och sekularisering
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ISBN: 9519498818 9789519498812 Year: 1991 Publisher: Åbo Åbo akademis förlag

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Ex-church members --- Lutheran Church --- Lutheran Church. --- 284.1 <480> --- -Ex-church members --- -Lutheran Church --- -Lutheranism --- Christian sects --- Apostates --- Church dropouts --- Church members, Fallen-away --- Church members, Lapsed --- Fallen-away church members --- Inactive church members --- Lapsed church members --- Non-church-affiliated people --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Finland --- Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko --- Church of Finland --- Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Finland --- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland --- Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Finnlands --- Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland --- Evangelisklutherska kyrkan i Finland --- Evankelis-luterilainen kirkko Suomessa --- Finland. --- Finlands evangelisk-lutherska kyrka --- Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church --- Luterilainen kirkko Suomessa --- Lutheran Church in Finland --- Suomen evankelisluterilainen kirkko --- Suomen kirkko --- Finland --- Religious life and customs. --- Theses --- -Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Finland --- 284.1 <480> Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Finland --- Lutheranism --- Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko. --- Svenska kyrkan --- Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America --- Porvoo Communion --- Fen-lan --- Fen-lan kung ho kuo --- Finlande --- Finlândia --- Finlandii︠a︡ --- Finli︠a︡ndii︠a︡ --- Finnland --- Finnlando --- Finrando --- Republic of Finland --- Republiken Finland --- Souomi --- Suomen tasavalta --- Suomi --- פינלנד --- フィンランド --- Finland (Grand duchy) --- Finland (Grand Duchy) --- Ex-church members - Finland. --- Ex-church members - Lutheran Church. --- Lutheran Church - Finland.


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Apocalypse Delayed.The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses.Third Edition
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ISBN: 9781442616059 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press

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Charles Russell --- George Stetson --- the British Millenarian revival --- Albury Park eschatology --- Joseph A. Seiss --- Christ's return --- Nelson H. Barbour --- the Bible Student movement --- the Bible Students' Association --- the New Covenant schism --- theocracy --- Joseph Franklin Rutherford --- the Watch Tower schism of 1917 --- the Bible Students and the First World War --- Rutherford's ministry --- theocratic government --- social alienation --- the Bible Student - Jehovah's Witness community --- religion --- global expansion --- the Olin Moyle case --- freedom to preach --- world assemblies --- congregation committees --- disfellowshipping --- prophetic failure --- doctrine --- dissent --- the Governing Body --- false history --- critical study --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- The Watchtower --- Apostates --- religious persecution --- anti-Witness propaganda --- relations with the State --- military service --- political neutrality --- Marxist persecution --- progressive revelation --- natural theology and the Bible --- biblical interpretation --- philosophy of history --- Christology and Soteriology --- covenantal relationships --- spirit creatures --- the nature of humankind --- Baptism and the Lord's supper --- the Church --- creation --- Bible chronology --- eschatological prophecy --- the Resurrection --- the sacredness of life and blood --- the Witness hierarchy --- Governing Body Committees --- the World-Wide Headquarters --- Watch Tower wealth --- Watchtower literature --- branches --- elders and ministerial servants --- congregational meetings --- Evangelism --- membership --- recruitment --- conversion --- sex --- marriage --- education --- entertainment --- the arts --- literature --- moral values --- social relationships --- moral behaviour --- ethnic and racial attitudes --- mental health --- Watchtower policy --- conservatism --- George Storrs --- legal corporations


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Falling from the faith : causes and consequences of religious apostasy.
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ISBN: 0803931883 0803931891 Year: 1988 Publisher: Beverly Hills Sage

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Apostasy --- -Ex-church members --- -Religion and sociology --- -#GROL:SEMI-261.9 --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Apostates --- Church dropouts --- Church members, Fallen-away --- Church members, Lapsed --- Fallen-away church members --- Inactive church members --- Lapsed church members --- Non-church-affiliated people --- Offenses against religion --- Heresy --- Christianity --- United States --- Church history --- -Apostasy --- Ex-church members --- Religion and sociology --- Christianity. --- U.S.A. --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- USA --- US --- Arhab --- Ar. ha-B. --- Artsot ha-Berit --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- ABSh --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- ABŞ --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Forente stater --- Spojené staty americké --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Yhdysvallat --- Verenigde Staten --- Egyesült Államok --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Estados Unidos de América --- United States of America --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- SShA --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- VSA --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Estados Unidos --- EE.UU. --- Stany Zjednoczone --- ĒPA --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- ZSA --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mei guo --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- U.S. --- America (Republic) --- Amirika Carékat --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- VS --- ولايات المتحدة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- Istadus Unidus --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Bí-kok --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- AQSh --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- Yunaeted Stet --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- САЩ --- SASht --- Съединените щати --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Америка (Republic) --- Amerika (Republic) --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Stati Uniti --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ē.P.A. --- Usono --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- FS --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Stâts Unîts --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- S.U.A. --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- Mî-koet --- 미국 --- Miguk --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- #GROL:SEMI-261.9

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