Religious conversion : historical aspects and modern perspective
- Religious conversion has become a dangerous social and individual problem. In Latin America, a traditional Catholic area, Protestant sects are successfully con-verting more and more Catholics into their own communities. Therefore the Pope demands a strict control of these activities. In India e.g., the Catholic hierarchy is critizising the Indian governments which have forbidden conversion on non-spiritual reasons. Hindu organizations have started even very successfully to re-convert Indian Christians particularly of Dalit and tribal background. Buddhists are very successful in indirect and even direct conversion of many Westerners. Wah-habit missionaries spread their Neo-Islam in the Muslim societies and get more and more even non-Muslim converts. We should add the forcible and sometimes ex-tremely cruel conversions the atheistic states had executed since the last century. ...
| Verfasserangaben: | Edmund WeberGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-57595 |
| URL: | http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm |
| ISSN: | 1434-5935 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Deutsch): | Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur |
| Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur (109) |
| Verlag: | Univ. |
| Verlagsort: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Dokumentart: | Ausgabe (Heft) zu einer Zeitschrift |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 2008 |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2008 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 24.09.2008 |
| Ausgabe / Heft: | 109 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 205493432 |
| Institute: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Institut für Wissenschaftliche Irenik |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
