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[4] [clarification needed] In an American context, Cuddy and colleagues [5] have investigated the influence of infrahumanisation on intergroup helping behaviour. Examining helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , Cuddy et al. found that people believed outgroup members experienced less negative uniquely human emotions than ingroup members.
Anti-conversion laws, or anti-conversion legislations, are a set of judicial rules that restrict or prohibit conversion of faith (proselytism) from one religion to another. It is a federal law in countries such as Algeria, [ 1 ] Bhutan, Myanmar, and Nepal.
A form of forced conversion became institutionalized during the Ottoman Empire in the practice of devşirme, [105] a human levy in which Christian boys were seized and collected from their families (usually in the Balkans), enslaved, forcefully converted to Islam, and then trained as elite military unit within the Ottoman army or for high ...
[1] [2] [3] A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and the treatment of other people as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to humans. [4] In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is dehumanization. [5] Dehumanization is one form of incitement to genocide. [6]
The law makes conversion non-bailable with up to 10 years of jail time if undertaken unlawfully, that is if "done through misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement, fraudulent means" or solely for marriage. [5] The ordinance also lays down provisions related to mass conversions. [5]
Rehumanization is the process by which one reverses the damage done by dehumanization.That is, in individuals or groups, the process of rehabilitating one’s way of perceiving the other(s) in question in one’s mind and in consequent behavior.
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person to some form of Christianity. Some Christian sects require full conversion for new members regardless of any history in other Christian sects, or from certain other sects. The exact requirements vary between different churches and denominations.
James P. Hanigan writes that individual conversion is the foundational experience and the central message of Christianity, adding that Christian conversion begins with an experience of being "thrown off balance" through cognitive and psychological "disequilibrium", followed by an "awakening" of consciousness and a new awareness of God. [7]