Results of qualitative biographical research on Christian fundamentalist converts and de-converts, and on occultist adolescents are presented and documented using case studies. Research focused on life themes and on biographical processes and transformations. Contrastive comparison of the cases resulted in typologies of Christian fundamentalist biographies and of "ways of dis-enchantment". Thes...

This article examines the reception and application of arguments developed during Donatist controversy in later debates over clerical celibacy, marriage continence medieval early modern church. It explores collision inspiration institution this context, arguing that sacerdotal celibacy Latin church Reformation both appropriated polemicized history Donatism. The way which spectre lexicon Donatis...