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People convert to a different religion for various reasons, including active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs, secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience, marital conversion, and forced conversion.
Mar 23, 2016 · Most people who convert to another religious or spiritual tradition do so after experiencing a ‘light bulb’ moment; and almost half convert because they are turned off by the actions of people belonging to the religion they are rejecting, a new study from Leeds Beckett University has revealed.
Shutterstock.com. Of the five major world religions, three actively work to gain converts. Islam, Buddhism and Christianity all place a great deal of emphasis on spreading their faith and...
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May 12, 2015 · By comparison, there are far fewer converts to Catholicism; 2% of all U.S. adults now identify as Catholics after having been raised in another religion or without a religion. This means that there are more than six former Catholics for every convert to Catholicism.
Apr 27, 2009 · The reasons people give for changing their religion – or leaving religion altogether – differ widely depending on the origin and destination of the convert. The group that has grown the most in recent years due to religious change is the unaffiliated population.
Jul 27, 2016 · Three dominant themes in the anthropology of religious conversion are the connection between religious conversion and modernity, the consequences of conversion, and the emphasis of conversion either as a rupture with the past or stressing elements of continuity.
May 18, 2021 · One common way people convert is what’s known as intensification, which means you become more or less committed to your current tradition. For traditions that are theistic—Islam, Judaism, Christianity—there’s an idea of a relationship with the divine, and relationships are not static. They progress.
