Religious conversion, philosophy, and social science
I argue that empirical studies into the phenomenon of religious conversion suffer from conceptual unclarity owing to an absence of philosophical contributions. I examine the relationship between definition and empirical result in the social sciences, and I show that a wide divergence in conceptual a...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2023
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 94, Issue: 2, Pages: 139-149 |
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Philosophy of sociology
B philosophy of religion B Conceptual Analysis B Religious Conversion B Social Science |
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