This is a review of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Drawing upon research on Germans converting to Islam and Turks converting to Christianity, converting is understood as complex fusion of individual choice and cultural/political conflict.

The following work attempts to trace the historic roots of Brazilian government’s discrimination towards religious freedom rights Jews and Sabbatarian Christians exhibited in application ENEM 2009 2010. This research article defends thesis that modern Constitutional arguments for denying accommodations on national exams Sabbatarians grounds laicite, state preference religion or equality under l...

The article gives a brief analysis of the experience Old Believers-Pomorians in fighting against innovation Christianity, which is based on saintly and patristic approach to heresy. It shown that sects new religious movements have typolog-ical similarities with doctrines older heresies. author substantiates need for Believers Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) jointly confront...

lēthēs Logos of Celsus, preserved in large part with Origen’s response in Contra Celsum, is the most signifi cant extant second-century literary attack on Christianity. Celsus attacked Christianity not only for philosophic reasons, but also because he was alarmed about social consequences of the spread of Christianity. His book was occasioned by Christians refusing to honor the cults of the Rom...

In this essay, I explore how Christians can relate to the Sabbath in a way that adequately expresses Christian traditions about sacred time while showing respect for distinctly Jewish practices. My basic claim is sanctification of presents an entirely new challenge Christianity does not view Judaism as superseded or outdated. Thus, ask: What should be meaning commandment Christians? How sanctif...

The apocryphal account of the birth and childhood Mary, mother Jesus (and to a lesser degree himself) known most commonly as Protevangelium James is one influential early Christian texts outside New Testament. It witnessed substantially in Greek manuscript tradition well several other languages. In process its transmission from late third century or fourth into medieval/early modern period, var...

The "Christianization" of the home is taken up here by examining the specific problem of Christian ritual and ritual spaces on the rural estate. It is argued that most worship in rural villas took place outside ecclesiastical supervision or intervention, and instead was shaped by older seigniorial hierarchies. It was this particular sociology of worship that brought domestic worship under episc...

marriage holds a special position in different cultures and religions. despite differences in the limits and conditions of marriage, religions have many similarities in regard to the issue of marriage. this research paper is a comparative study of marriage in islam, christianity, and judaism. the findings reveal that all three traditions recognize marriage to have a sacred nature, and they all ...

The subject of the study is representation Christian vision in Ukrainian literature independence. problem considered dichotomy conservative views against multicultural and atheistic education. purpose this to discuss theses T. Trokhymenko’s 2022 article ‘The modern Literature Christianity’, published journal ‘Patriarchy: Uniate analytical periodical’. structural elements work repeat confutable ...

Michael Scott Horton wrote in Christianity Today, “The ultimate questions people of our day are asking are these: What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose behind my life and my destiny? What questions are we evangelicals asking? Should we immerse, sprinkle or pour? Who is the next logical candidate for Antichrist? While we are busy at conferences and conventions, talking with ourselves ...