Religious Conversion of Adolescents
Testing the Lofland and Stark Model of Religious Conversion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5138565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willem Kox (Utrecht University), Wim Meeus (0000-0002-5496-3430, Utrecht University), Harm ''T Hart, Harm 'T Hart, Harm ’t Hart (Utrecht University) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 227 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0210 • E-ISSN: 2325-7873 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3711359 |
| OpenAlex | W1897720948 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 25 |
In a study among 92 Dutch adolescents we tested the Lofland and Stark model of religious conversion. Our results show that the model offers a fairly adequate set of conditions of conversion, but is inadequate as a model for the process of conversion. Young people are attracted to religious groups for two reasons: First, the group offers them a new perspective on life and so liberates them from entrapment in their own problems. Second, the group provides them with a satisfying personal network
Group (periodic table) · Perspective (graphical) · Religious conversion · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Chemistry · Computer Science · Organic Chemistry · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies
The Computations Underlying Religious Conversion
Managing to Recruit
Reconstructing the Rise of Christianity
Gender and the Experience of Conversion
Socio-psychological Reflection of Religious Mobility
Power, other-worldliness, and the extended mind
Spiritual Conversion
The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity
Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars
Faith and traditions
Reasons to be Fearful, One, Two, Three
Why religious movements succeed or fail
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of a Religious Conversion
Familial Antecedents and the Choice of a New Religious Movement
Coping with an Uncertain Future
Pour une sociologie des conversions
Religious conversion among high security hospital patients
Self-chosen involvement in new religious movements (NRMs)
Recruitment to Elective Cults
Issues in the Sociology and Psychology of Religious Conversion
Comparing Biographical Backgrounds of Religious Founders and Converts to Those Religions
The Step Model of Transformative Religious Experiences
Just Another Club? The Distinctiveness of the Relation Between Religious Service Attendance and Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment
Changing Careers
The Origins of Religious Homophily in a Medium and Large School
Social Class and Finding a Congregation
Judeo-Christian Religious Experience and Psychopathology
Gender Boot Camp for Korean Immigrant Patriarchs
Predicting Reaction to a Message of Ministry
Reassessing Conventional Approaches to Conversion
The 'friendship dynamics of religion,' or the 'religious dynamics of friendship'? A social network analysis of adolescents who attend small schools
Social psychology through symbolic interaction.
On Becoming a World-Saver
People Power Change
Organized Miracles
Sacred Journeys
Religious conversion in adolescence
Empirical Adequacy of Lofland's Conversion Model
A Field Perspective of Religious Conversion
Toward a Theory of Conversion and Commitment to the Occult
Conversion
Paradigm Conflict, Types of Conversion, and Conversion Theories
Ananda Cooperative Village
Organized Miracles
Conversion Careers
Ideology and Recruitment in Religious Groups
"Becoming a World-Saver" Revisited
Seekers and Saucers
Doomsday Cult
Sources of Recruitment to Catholic Pentecostalism
The Lofland-Stark Conversion Model
The Jesus People
Thought Reform and the Jesus Movement
Conversion in a Billy Graham Crusade
Change of Heart
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,97 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2023 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |