TY - GEN A1 - Weber, Edmund T1 - Religious conversion : historical aspects and modern perspective T2 - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur N2 - 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. ... T3 - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 109 Y1 - 2008 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5821 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-57595 UR - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm SN - 1434-5935 IS - 109 PB - Univ. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -