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    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface: The sociology of conversion / Roberto Cipriani -- Introduction: The varieties of conversion experience / Giuseppe Giordan -- The meaning of conversion : redirection of foundational trust / Anthony J. Blasi -- Conversion : heroes and their sociological redemption / Kieran Flanagan -- Elements for a semiotics of "conversion" / Patrick Michel -- For love of faith : patterns of religious engagement in a new town / Kees de Groot -- Pilgrimage and conversion / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Becoming a new ager : a conversion, an affiliation, a fashion? / R�egis Dericquebourg -- Enchantment, identity, community, and conversion : Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil / Roberto Motta -- Convert, revert, pervert / Enzo Pace -- Conversion as a new lifestyle : an exploratory study of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Luigi Berzano and Eliana Martoglio -- Conversion as opposition / Giuseppe Giordan -- Making the convert : conversions in the LDS community today / Sophie-H�el�ene Trigeaud -- A cognitive psychology perspective on religious conversion as told in the Gospels / Stefano Federici, Pierluigi Caddeo, and Francesco Valerio Tommasi -- Conversion and mission : missionary insertion and the social conditions of Christianization / Paul-Andr�e Turcotte.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Guiseppe Giordan.</note>
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  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Conversion</topic>
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    <topic>Religious pluralism</topic>
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