Becoming a World-Saver
A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5248758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Lofland, Rodney Stark |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 862 |
| Publication date | 1965-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2090965 |
| OpenAlex | W4242102252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 332 |
Criminology · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology
Transgressions
Understandings of Theological Conversion in the Interreligious Dialogue
Radicalization into Violent Extremism I
The Radicalisation of Prison Inmates
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization
Islamic Underground Movement
Conversion to Islam
Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus
Drifting Through Samsara
Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation
Conversion
Islamismus in der Jugendphase
Visioning New and Minority Religions
Disciplining the Slaves of God
Social Control in Late Antiquity
Female Crime and Female Confinement in Late Antiquity
Words at War
Power, Faith, and Reciprocity in a Slave Society
Holy Beatings
A Predator and a Gentleman
Reading Thecla in Fourth-Century Pontus
Analytic Induction
Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference
Constructing Professional Identity
Identity Work and Organizational Identification
Emotions and Social Movements
Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars
Religion and Organization
Competitive strategies of religious organizations
Agency
Identity and Conversion in the Muslim Community of Germany. Review of
Norms and New Media as New Pillars of New Network Terrorism
Global Revival of Legendism
Structure, positions and mechanisms
Becoming Yugajok
Breaking Out of the Cocoon
Choosing Judaism
Conversion and Community
Faith and traditions
Religious conversion, philosophy, and social science
Conversion motifs among Muslim converts in the United States
Involvement in a New Religious Movement
Religious transition
All for One
Converting the Story
Power, other-worldliness, and the extended mind
Embodied world construction
Self-Transformation at the Boundary of Religious Conversion and Psychosis
New Religious Movement Membership and the Importance of Stable ‘Others’ for the Making of Selves
Communication Under Conditions of Uncertainty
Jihad, Modernity, and Sectarianism
Building an ideological fortress
Current Research on Religious Conversion
The Establishment of Islam in Central Asia
Conclusion
New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare
Saving souls, serving society
Chumash Conversions
(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”
Matters (Un-)Becoming
Crafting Hizbiyyin in Contemporary Indonesia
The Green Marketplace
Voldelig transnational aktivisme
Drinker Identity Development
The evolving self
Coping with major life events
Conversion from British Hinduism to Christianity
Counselling former members of charismatic groups
A symbolic interactionist understanding of the selves of former members of New Religious Movements
Primary Groups in Social Movements
The Choice of Stripping for a Living
Theories of Conversion
Seeking the Seekers in the Sociology of Religion
Adopting a Stigmatized Label
Taking leave of Damanhur. Deconversion from a magico-esoteric community
Joining Soka Gakkai in Cuba
Queer Jesus, straight angels
Stark and Finke or Durkheim on Conversion and (Re-)Affiliation
Falling in Love and Changing Gods
The effectiveness of words
How to think about mass religious conversion
Artists as truth-seekers
Population-level effects of education and material conditions on religious change in Chiapas, Mexico
A computational perspective on faith
Beyond Interiority in Christian Conversion
Современные Тренды И Перспективы Развития Социологии Религиозной Конверсииcurrent Trends and Prospects for the Sociology of Religious Conversion
Конструирование Новой Практики «адвент-Календаря» Немцами-Мусульманами В Современной Германииa New Religious Practice of the Muslim “Advent Calendar” Among the German Muslims in Modern Germany
African American Women's Experiences Around Conversion to Islam
A Model of Spiritual Transformation of Baalei Teshuvah
Identity and the development of religious thinking
La conversion. Retour à l’identité
Paul de Tarse, figure de conversion
Many in Body, One in Mind”
Paroles de révolutionnaires éthiopiennes
New Religious Movements in the United States
Deconversion
Process of Religious Conversion in the Catholic Charismatic Movement
Ritual Studies in Psychology of Religion
Mental Health and Religion
"Islam as "The Middle Path
| Unique citing works | 332 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,93 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 325 |