Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others. Thus "religious conversion" would describe the abandoning of adherence to one denomination and affiliating with another.
C. List of converts to Christianity from Judaism; List of converts to Christianity from nontheism; List of converts to Christianity from paganism; List of converts to Christianity from Sikhism
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics. The sociology of religion indicates religious conversion was an important factor in the emergence of ...
Religious buildings and structures converted to a different religion (5 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Religious conversion" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
According to 2015 Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background": A Global Census study published by Baylor University institute for studies of religion, it estimates that 10.2 million Muslims converted to Christianity. [12] Due primarily to conversion, Christianity has grown in South Korea from 2.0% in 1945 [13] to 29.3% in 2010. [14]
Below are lists of religious converts. The term proselyte is often used as a synonym for religious converts, although historically it first referred solely to converts to Judaism . v
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.
Forced conversion is the adoption of a religion or irreligion under duress. [1] Someone who has been forced to convert to a different religion or irreligion may continue, covertly, to adhere to the beliefs and practices which were originally held, while outwardly behaving as a convert.