A Response to The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion from two Perspectives
This review considers the The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (Rambo and Farhadian 2014) from the perspective of Western counseling practice and its applicability to Eastern religious traditions. The Handbook presents a nuanced approach to conversion that emphasizes its complex and dynamic q...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2018]
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-226 |
| Review of: | The Oxford handbook of religious conversion (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2014) (Spencer, Anne C.)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBQ North America |
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Book review
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This review considers the The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (Rambo and Farhadian 2014) from the perspective of Western counseling practice and its applicability to Eastern religious traditions. The Handbook presents a nuanced approach to conversion that emphasizes its complex and dynamic qualities, providing counselors/pastors with practical perspectives to enhance their understanding of people in various stages of a conversion career. By addressing non-Abrahamic traditions, The Handbook also looks at “conversion” from a wider perspective, raising issues about whether it can legitimately be applied to traditions that do not share Western religious assumptions (such as exclusivity) and religious identity. From both perspectives, The Handbook challenges readers to expand their perspectives and rethink their preconceived notions of religious conversion, especially those assumptions based on Western Protestant interpretation of the story of Paul’s conversion. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Responses to Presentations at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Forum on the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (2018)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0712-6 |