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 …
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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…
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…
This thesis explores the history of Christianity and conversion to it in 16th and 17th Century Japan. It argues that conversion is a complex phenomenon which happened for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, it argues that due to the political context and limitations acting upon t…
This thesis offers a reconsideration of Amelia Opie’s career as a novelist in the light of her developing religious allegiances over the period 1814-1825 in particular. In twentieth-century scholarship, Opie (1769-1853) was often treated primarily as the author of Adeline Mowbra…
Moderation does not constitute a monolithic model and the difference in the moderation process will influence the way a political party manages its internal dynamics. The cases of the AKP and the PKS show that both have different levels of moderation due to the different context…
This dissertation argues that thick faith transforms character because it demands an embodied leap into an alternative narrative world. Illustrated with interviews of converts to Islam, Nation of Islam, and Christianity who were once extremely violent and destructive, it argues …
The early modern period is often associated with the emergence of the autonomous subject and the Protestant triumph of inner faith over outer forms. This dissertation complicates such a trajectory by considering how England's increased contact with Muslim “Turks” around the turn…
This dissertation investigates twenty-eight instances of praise of God in Luke-Acts by combining a close, intrinsic reading with extrinsic, comparative study. Part one overviews praise of God in selected early Jewish literature and Greek texts and analyzes it as a narrative moti…
While the social sciences have interrogated religious conversions as intensely social, historically situated phenomena, literary studies has not focused the same scrutiny on these textually rendered events and the forces that shape them. This dissertation explores religious conv…