religious conversion

Adoption of religious beliefs

EntityQ814997

Also known as conversion · converting to a religion · converting to another religion

Subclass of: religious experience
, change
, conversion

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Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others. Thus "religious conversion" would describe the abandoning of adherence to one denomination and affiliating with another. This might be from one to another denomination within the same religion, for example, from Protestant Christianity to Roman Catholicism or from Shi'a Islam to Sunni Islam. In some cases, religious conversion "marks a transformation of religious identity and is symbolized by special rituals".

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46 statements · 26% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Studied by: psychology of religious conversion
Practiced by: convert
Members / parts: conversion to Islam
conversion to Christianity
conversion to Judaism

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35 identifiers linking religious conversion across the web's reference databases

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26%

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