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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.
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 ...
Von Braun's religious conversion occurred in 1946 after he visited a church in Texas. [68] René Girard (1923–2015) — philosophical anthropologist [69] William Onyeabor — Nigerian funk musician. Barbara Jones — Jamaican singer who after becoming a Christian gave up her secular career and released four Gospel albums. [70]
Rambo [3] provides a model for conversion that classifies it as a highly complex process that is hard to define. He views it as a process of religious change that is affected by an interaction of numerous events, experiences, ideologies, people, institutions, and how these different experiences interact and accumulate over time.
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.
Emir Kusturica – filmmaker, actor, and musician; although of Muslim ancestry, his father was atheist; [73] took the name "Nemanja" on conversion in 2005 [74]; Seraphim Rose – Hieromonk and religious writer; in early adulthood he considered non-theist ideas of God and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche that God is dead; became Russian Orthodox in 1962 [75] [76]
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.
Pages in category "Conversion to Christianity" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Rice Christian; S. Seeker (Anabaptism) Sinner's prayer;