Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background: A Global Census
Since the 1960s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of known conversions from Islam to Christianity. Most of these conversions have been to forms of evangelical or Pentecostal Christianity, but there have also been conversions to Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and still other c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Interdisciplinary journal of research on religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Pages: 1-19 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Convert
/ Christianity
/ Number
/ History 1960-2015
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CA Christianity RJ Mission; missiology TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | Since the 1960s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of known conversions from Islam to Christianity. Most of these conversions have been to forms of evangelical or Pentecostal Christianity, but there have also been conversions to Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and still other converts claim to remain in some way both Muslims and followers of Jesus. This article ex- plains how we obtained estimates of the number of converts, the complexities involved in this task, and an annotated list of countries by continent with the estimated number of believers in Christ from a Muslim background. The article includes charts with maximal, minimal, and medium estimates of this population from 1960 to the present. |
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| ISSN: | 1556-3723 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal of research on religion
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