This work contains a comprehensive overview of psychological research on religious conversion and spiritual transformation, which went through remarkable growth in the past generation. The period from 1900 to 1930s was marked by James, Hall, Freud their followers; subsequent restrictions stopped such work. In 1960s, this area re-emerged; since then, it has significantly expanded. A new study ex...

method or conceptual discipline, but rather represented a way of life and a discovery of one’s self. The philosopher was much more a spiritual adviser than a professor. He exhorted his students to mold themselves through a conversion of attention and through spiritual exercises to follow the paths of wisdom. As Pierre Hadot has noted, the discourse on the transcendent and the spiritual experien...

India is one of the leading producers of coconuts in the world producing 13 billion nuts per annum. The area is distributed in 18 states and three Union Territories under different agro climatic conditions and a 3000 years tradition in coconut cultivation. About 48% of the total production of coconut in the country is used for edible and religious purposes, 31% for conversion into mill copra, 8...

This paper discusses the concept of religious conversion in Bahá’í Faith through narratives first-generation Bahá’ís. Through life story interviews, converts narrate their process becoming as “not converting”, which aligns with a principle called “progressive revelation”. Religious has frequently been described literature radical, sudden, dramatic transformation–often following personal crisis ...

Based on the findings of mixed-methods research conducted with 279 Muslim prisoners in 10 prisons England, Switzerland and France, this paper argues that contemporary European are sites intense religious change, which many people born outside Islam born-Muslims believe practise for first time. In order to map experience change prison, articulates an original typology conversion identify convert...

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...