“When your heart is touched, it's not a decision”: A Narrative Analysis of Iranian Muslim Conversion to Christianity

This is a qualitative study of 17 Iranian Muslim converts to Christianity residing in Canada. The study asks how the sample narrativizes the meaning of religious conversion in their lives. Analysis reveals a six-fold thematic pattern, the underlying premise of which is the relationship between volit...

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Main Author: Darwish, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-77
Further subjects:B Canada
B Religious Experience
B Islam
B Iranian
B Christianity
B Conversion
B Muslim
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