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THEOLOGY OF CONVERSION
THEOLOGY OF CONVERSION

Author(s): Cosmin Tudor Ciocan, Osman Murat Deniz
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion
Published by: Editions IARSIC
Keywords: conversion; religious experience; pluralism; Christianity; Islam; Judaism; religion; philosophy;

Summary/Abstract: Conversion is a word with a variety of meanings. There is no religion, on the one hand, that do not promote conversion and thus use proselytism to do it. On the other hand, same religions that believe conversion (to their own faith) is an act of God, a sign that everyone should embrace and leave whatever religious belief they might have previously, consider a ‘sin’, an act that should be forbidden, the conversion/leaving for other, divers religion. How is it regarded by religions and scientific thought and at what point it became obsolete?

  • Issue Year: 7/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 496-508
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English