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Religious Conversion
Weber, Edmund
Weber, Edmund
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Religious conversion has become a dangerous social and individual problem. In Latin America, a traditional Catholic area, Protestant sects are successfully converting 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 nonspiritual reasons. Hindu organizations have started even very successfully to reconvert Indian Christians particularly of Dalit and tribal background. Buddhists are very successful in indirect and even direct conversion of many Westerners. Wahhabit 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 extremely cruel conversions the atheistic states had executed since the last century. Let us first have a short look at the religions concerning their understanding and practice of conversion and then see how the problem of conversion has to be treated under the conditions of modern religion
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2008
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