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Joining and leaving religion : research perspectives / edited by Leslie J. Francis and Yaacov J. Katz.

Title
Joining and leaving religion : research perspectives / edited by Leslie J. Francis and Yaacov J. Katz.
Publication
Leominster [England] : Gracewing, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Francis, Leslie J.
  • Katz, Yaacov Julian
Description
ix, 336 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Ex-church members
  • Religion and sociology
  • Conversion
  • Apostasy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The sovereign consumer? Religious allegiance and disaffiliation in a detraditionalised world / Alan Aldridge -- Gone but not quite out of the frame: the distinctive problems of researching religious disaffiliation / Philip Richter -- The implications of joining or leaving an established church / Edward Bailey -- Entering the sheepfold: a new look at infant baptism / William Strange -- Joining and leaving British Methodism since the 1960s / Clive D. Field -- Religious affiliation and disaffiliation in late adolescence and early adulthood: the impact of a neglected period of life / Friedrich Schweitzer -- Leaving before adolescence: profiling the child no longer in church / Mandy Robbins -- Leaving the church to keep my faith: the lived experiences of non-heterosexual Christians / Andrew K.T. Yip --
  • Fresh through the door: newcomers to the church life in Australia / Peter Kaldor and John Bellamy -- Dropping out of church: the Australian experience / Philip Hughes ... [et al.] -- Joining the church by conversion: a qualitative study of conversions in Holland / Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Andreas Prokopf -- Childhood, personality and vocation: a study of Pentecostal ministers / William K. Kay -- Swimming against the current: exceptional cases of apostates and converts / Bruce Hunsberger -- On gaining and losing faith with style: a study in post-modernity and/or confusion among college students / Jeff Astley -- Movements in and out of Orthodox Judaism : the cases of penitents and the disaffected / William Shaffir -- Disaffiliation and affiliation: experiences of conflict in leaving Christianity and joining a new spirituality? / Terence J. Lovat and Kellie Morrison -- The personality profile of the churchgoer: a study among female French undergraduates / Christopher A. Lewis.
ISBN
0852445172
OCLC
  • 45476543
  • SCSB-10964665
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library