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Psychology of religious conversion. The modern academic study of the psychology of religious conversion can be tracked back to 1881 when a series of lectures was delivered by early psychologist G. Stanley Hall. [1] In its early stages the psychology of religious conversion mainly addressed Christianity and to this day is dominated by studies of ...
Religious fanaticism, or religious extremism, is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.
Proselytism (/ ˈprɒsəlɪtɪzəm /) is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs. [1][2][3] Carrying out attempts to instill beliefs can be called proselytization. [4] Sally Sledge discusses religious proselytization as the marketing of religious messages. [5] Proselytism is illegal in some countries. [6]
Conversion to Christianity. Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics.
Religion and personality. Most scientists agree that religiosity (also called religiousness) is not an independent personality trait, despite there being some commonality between their characteristics. [1][2] Religiosity and personality traits both relate to one's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. [2] However, unlike for personality, one's ...
The earliest documented Christian knowledge of Muhammad stems from Byzantine sources, written shortly after Muhammad's death in 632. In the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati, a dialogue between a recent Christian convert and several Jews, one participant writes that his brother "wrote to [him] saying that a deceiving prophet has appeared amidst the Saracens". [17]
Almost all Christians believe that Jesus was the incarnated Son of God, divine, and sinless. Islam teaches that Jesus was the penultimate and one of the most important prophets of God, but not the Son of God, not divine, and not part of the Trinity. Rather, Muslims believe the creation of Jesus was similar to the creation of Adam (Adem).
The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [9] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse, but also has entered Academic discourse. [10][11] However, the term has also been criticized to be uncritically adapted.