"The book then traces the debates on conversion in the Constituent Assembly around the Niyogi report and concerning the freedom of religion acts. It concludes with an examination of the more contemporary Sangh Parivar campaign for Hindutva and Christian campaigns for evangelizat…
Competing social networks are central to the process of conversion from one religious or spiritual orientation to another. Although numerous sociological, psychological, quasi-economic, and theological forces have been explored as components of an individual's network ties to a …
Seventh-day Adventist missions in the western region of Nigeria are a century old, yet reversion to pre-Christian practices such as divination and sorcery are reported, especially during periods of personal crises. This study sought to understand the influence of the traditional…
African American versus Caucasian American women in the United States who were converts to Islam were compared regarding their importance ratings of nine reasons for converting. The potential impact of age and education on these reasons for conversion was also assessed. Most not…
The Florentine Dominican Riccoldo da Monte Croce was a thirteenth-century missionary and apologist to Eastern Christianity and Islam, who traveled throughout the Middle East during a period in which the Latin Church was in ferment, challenged by the internal danger of heresy, an…
This dissertation introduces economic theory, modern microeconometric methods, and new microdata sources to the study of the economic history of the Middle East. In particular, it examines an intriguing phenomenon in this field: the stylized fact that non-Muslim minorities are b…
This dissertation explores how Christian culture from Late Antiquity through the European Middle Ages portrayed Judaism and Jews as anachronistic. Christian responses to Jewish history, Jewish sectarianism, and Hebrew, illustrate that there was a persistent predisposition among …
This dissertation examines the politics of Christian conversion among youth in the context of missions in Kano emirate during British colonial rule. Studies of colonial-era Christian missions in Muslim Northern Nigeria have focused on governmental efforts to limit, segregate, se…
This study examines the often neglected genre of African-American conversion narratives: the extraordinary, often miraculous accounts of men and women who experience conversion to Christianity. It begins with an examination of the historical and literary circumstances under whic…
The Naaman story has been curiously neglected throughout history both in Hebrew Bible and liturgical studies. Scholars have paid little attention to the event of Naaman's conversion through a water rite. In this study, the Naaman story is analyzed in relation to conversion and w…
The purpose of the project was to determine if nine and ten year old children at a public school in Mexico could learn biblical knowledge by being taught four lessons. Both cognitive and affective change were measured. The challenge for the American researcher was to cross the a…
It is 15th Century Spain and the Inquisition is raging. Countless hapless souls find a torturous death bound to the fiery hell of burning stakes. Though her father is burned as a Jewish heretic, Susanna Diego escapes and gives birth to her daughter, Teresa, at a convent. Her pra…
In Spain, in 1501 the conversion of Muslims to Christianity was thought possible, hence the decreed baptisms; by the end of the century metanoia was deemed impossible. Similarly, religious otherness was thought to be surmountable; yet, it ultimately became indelible or racialize…