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A Narrative Analysis of Iranian Muslim Conversion to Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3944137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Darwish (Department of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-77 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429817732327 |
| OpenAlex | W2772050897 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
This is a qualitative study of 17 Iranian Muslim converts to Christianity residing in Canada. The study asks how the sample narrativizes the meaning of religious conversion in their lives. Analysis reveals a six-fold thematic pattern, the underlying premise of which is the relationship between volition, cognition, and sensory experience (or religious emotion). There is a consensus among respondents that human knowledge is always limited, whatever the field of inquiry. In consequence, religious knowledge based on cognition alone proves to be an insufficient guide to matters of ultimate truth. It follows that conversion is frequently experienced and represented less as a rational choice than as a spontaneously gifted event in which cognition and volition are absorbed by what Azari and Birnbacher have so aptly expressed as a "[knowing] that feels like something
Cognition · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Premise · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Volition (linguistics · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology · Study and Philosophy of Religion
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Telling Stories
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Women Embracing Islam
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
The Qur'an
Diaspora by Design
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion
Lived Religion
Theories of Conversion
The Sociology of Conversion
Narrative and Religious Experience
Conversion Motifs Among British Converts to Islam
Personal narratives
A “Lucan Effect” in the Commitment of Iranian Converts in Transit. The case of the Pentecostal Iranian Enclave in Istanbul
In the Name of Culture and Religion
Conversion as a Migration Strategy in a Transit Country
Calling upon the Sacred
Power, Personalities and Politics
Conversion Out of Islam
The Active vs. Passive Convert
Emotionology
Becoming a World-Saver
Life as Narrative
Apostasy in Islam
The Convert as a Social Type
Understanding Religious Conversion
Conversion Motifs
Change of Heart
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |