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Religious Conversion: Religion Scholars Thinking Together

Shanta Premawardhana 

ISBN: 978-1-118-97236-6

September 2015

Wiley-Blackwell

240 pages

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Religious Conversion: Religion Scholars Thinking Together

Shanta Premawardhana

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Description
Religious Conversion: Religion Scholars Thinking Together explores various issues relating to the nature, methods, and effects of religious conversion in the major world faiths.
  • Presents the results of an innovative ten-year project initiated the World Council of Churches
  • Features contributions from religious scholars and leaders of Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim traditions
  • Considers myriad issues relating to the nature, methods, and effects of religious conversion in the major world faiths
  • Addresses questions on religious freedom, legal considerations, and the future for religious conversion
About the Author
Shanta Premawardhana is President of the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) in Chicago, a member of the governing board of the National Council of Churches, and a member of the board of trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He was the director of the Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation programme of the World Council of Churches during which time he convened the Thinking Together group of religious scholars. He has published numerous articles on religion, interreligious dialogue, and Christian mission, and is co-editor of Sharing Values: A Hermeneutics for Global Ethics (2011).
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