Finding and losing faith : studies in conversion

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Part one: understanding conversion in multi-faith and post-Christian contexts. Conversion, dialogue and identity: reflections on the British context / Michael Ipgrave -- Beyond conversion: exploring the process of moving away from evangelical Christianity / Gordon Lynch -- Word of the Buddha and Jesus, the Word: conversions from Christianity to Buddhism and from Buddhism to Christianity / Elizabeth Harris -- Becoming pagan having been Christian / Graham Harvey -- Conversion and Judaism / Jonathan Romain -- Social construction of evangelical conversion: a sideways glance / Derek T. Tidball -- Pentecostaperspectiveses on conversion / William K. Kay -- Part two: Understanding conversion to Christianity. Paul: archetypal convert and disputed convert / Stephen J. Chester -- Conversion to Christianity: the colonisation of the mind? / Brian Stanley -- Changing your mother? : Hindu responses to conversion / Robin Thomson -- Conversion and apostasy: the case of Islam / Peter Cotterell -- Emerging debate on apostasy in Britain: a Bradford perspective / Philip Lewis -- Conversion from Hinduism and Sikhism to Christianity in India / Theodore Gabriel.