The article examines how recovering drug addicts employ testimonies of conversion and addiction to develop and sustain personal identity and create meaning from varied experiences in life. Drawing on 31 autobiographies of recovering drug addicts we analyze conversion and addiction testimonies in two European contexts (Serbia and the Netherlands, including a sample of immigrants). The analysis s...

Oromo, çok eskiden beri Etiyopya’da yaşayan yerli halklardan biridir. Günümüzde Oromo’nun çoğu Hristiyan (Ortodoks, Protestan) ve Müslümandır. Yine de bazı Oromolar hâlâ Waqefanna adlı dinlerine bağlıdır. Ancak, Hıristiyanlık İslam’ın gelişinden sonra, ’yı terk etmiş Hıristiyanlığı veya İslam’ı kucaklamıştır. Oromo halkı bu nedenle son 150 yıldan büyük bir dini dönüşüm geçirmiştir. tarihi yılla...

Preface It is safe to say that my Catholic education and socially liberal upbringing were not the most conducive environments for understanding evangelicalism. While the born again experience and the idea of literally interpreting the Bible were relatively familiar concepts, I am not afraid to admit that my understanding of speaking in tongues and faith healing were somewhat biased. My desire t...

The previous sessions on the Archaeology of Crusading, Conversion and Colonisation at the annual meetings of the EAA in 2006 and 2007 were very successful. The organisers intend to maintain and strengthen this forum for a growing branch of archaeological research with a third session for 2008. The setting of the 14 annual meeting of the EAA is particularly appropriate for this session, since th...

the phenomenon of conversion to islam in the territories conquered by the muslim arabs, is one of the ambiguous and controversial topics in the studies of islamic history. major part of the social transformation of copts in islamic egypt returns to their conversion from christianity to islam. gradual changing of the majority to a minority group under muslim rule was a complex process, because m...

This is a review of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Drawing upon research on Germans converting to Islam and Turks converting to Christianity, converting is understood as complex fusion of individual choice and cultural/political conflict.