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- Conversion is a change in religious norms and rituals, the enactment of which significantly transforms how religious agents think about themselves in relation to other members of their own faith, as well as those outside it. This is not to say simply that action produces belief, but rather that the two are inextricably linked.
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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.
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- Experience Freedom. Similar to knowing God's love, absolutely nothing compares to the freedom a child of God experiences when released from the heaviness, guilt, and shame caused by sin.
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- Experience Relationship. God sent Jesus, his only Son so that we could have a relationship with him. 1 John 4:9 says, "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him."
Mar 29, 2018 · Print Page. Waring Abbott/Getty Images. The triumph of Christianity over the pagan religions of ancient Rome led to the greatest historical transformation the West has ever seen: a transformation...
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Conversion is a miraculous work of God that transforms a man’s nature, producing righteous affections that move him to keep God’s commands. Conversion is a supernatural and miraculous work whereby God changes the very heart of the sinner. If the Gospel is grace alone–and it is–then every conversion is a miracle.
The sociology of religion indicates religious conversion was an important factor in the emergence of civilization and the making of the modern world. Conversion is the most studied aspect of religion by psychologists of religion, but there is still very little actual data available.
1–22. Published: 01 May 2014. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world.
May 10, 2021 · Constantine I (Flavius Valerius Constantinus) was Roman emperor from 306-337 CE and is known to history as Constantine the Great for his conversion to Christianity in 312 CE and his subsequent Christianization of the Roman Empire. His conversion was motivated in part by a vision he experienced at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome in 312 CE.
