Conversion history
A conversion history or a conversion report is a report about a person's access to a religious community or about the change of a person from one religious community or denomination to another. The process itself is called conversion , and the converting person is called convert. Conversion stories can be viewed as an independent genre of literature and have special characteristics. For example, the convert's life is often only briefly discussed before the conversion and this is presented as uncomfortable or empty.
Examples
- Journey of fate , Alfred Döblin
- Léon Morin, prêtre , Béatrix Beck
- Return to God , Karl Jakob Hirsch
- On the way , Joris-Karl Huysmans
See also
Bibliography
- Brigitta Müller-Rohr: Paradise is under your feet. A qualitative study of Swiss women who converted to Islam (PhD thesis Phil I, University of Zurich), 1996, DNB 950065072 .
- Friedrich Niewöhner, Fidel Rädler (Ed.): Conversions in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age , Olms, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 978-3-487-11065-3 .
- Christian Heidrich : The converts: about religious and political conversions , Hanser Belletristik, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-446-20147-7 .
- Sathianathan Clarke, Rowena Robinson: Religious Conversion in India , OUP India 2003, ISBN 978-0-19566329-7 .
Web links
- Digital Edition Konversionserzählungen , Universität Hamburg, accessed June 1, 2017