Towards a New Model of Conversion Careers

The Impact of Personality and Contingency Factors

Bibliographic Data

ID11287177
AuthorsHenri Gooren (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume34
Issue2
Pages149-166
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueExchange (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0166-2740 • E-ISSN: 1572-543X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/1572543054068514
OpenAlexW2059398764
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The central question of this article — why people may change their religious affiliation or become disaffiliated — is relevant from both an academic and a practical point of view. The article makes first an inventory of existing literature on religious conversion. Next I sketch the contours of the new conversion careers approach I am currently working on. I make some comparisons with a region that is not usually mentioned in the literature on conversion: Latin America. These comparisons are based on my earlier fieldwork on Roman Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and Mormonism in Costa Rica and Guatemala (H. Gooren, Rich among the Poor: Church, Firm, and Household among Small-scale Entrepreneurs in Guatemala City, Amsterdam: Thela Thesis 1999)

Cartography · Contingency · Epistemology · Geography · Latin Americans · Personality · Point (geometry · Political science · Religious conversion · Scale (ratio · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology

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