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These converts are also given land and money. For example, 428 poor Hindus in Matli were converted between 2009 and 2011 by the Madrassa Baitul Islam, a Deobandi seminary in Matli, which pays off the debts of Hindus converting to Islam. [179] Another example is the conversion of 250 Hindus to Islam in Chohar Jamali area in Thatta. [180]
Whether a "subhuman" classification means "human but inferior" or "not human at all" may be academic, as in practice it corresponds to prejudice regardless (for example, compare the Nazi idea of the Untermensch).
Moral conversion, according to Lonergan, is one of three different types of conversion along with the intellectual and the religious conversion. [9] From a causal point of view, it is the difference between varying levels of consciousness leading to a higher sense of responsibility for the world.
As defined by Patricia Caldwell, the conversion narrative was "a testimony of personal religious experience…spoken or read aloud to the entire congregation of a gathered church before admission as evidence of the applicant's visible sainthood" [1] Edmund S. Morgan describes the typical "morphology of conversion" related in the conversion narrative as involving the stages of "knowledge ...
Nevertheless, the idea of creating intelligent artificial beings (proposed, for example, by roboticist Hans Moravec) has influenced transhumanism. [38] Moravec's ideas and transhumanism have also been characterised as a "complacent" or " apocalyptic " variant of posthumanism and contrasted with " cultural posthumanism " in humanities and the ...
The god Hermanubis, an example of Greco-Egyptian syncretism The god Taranis-Jupiter, an example of Romano-Celtic syncretism. Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. This can occur for many reasons, and ...
Typically sudden conversions occur in childhood and are exceptionally emotional experiences. Often sudden conversions are the result of overwhelming anxiety and guilt from sin that becomes unbearable, making conversion a functional solution to ease these emotions. [4] Emotional factors have been found to correlate with sudden conversions.
Martin Harris – Undetermined Protestantism; Conversions to the Quakers, Universalists, Baptists, Presbyterians, [11] and several denominations of Mormonism, [12] Also may have been Methodist for a time. Known among Mormons as one of the Three Witnesses. Lex Hixon – Not raised religious; conversions to Vedanta, Sufism.