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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Main Author: Spinney, Oliver Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2023
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 94, Issue: 2, Pages: 139-149
Further subjects:B Philosophy of sociology
B philosophy of religion
B Conceptual Analysis
B Religious Conversion
B Social Science
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