Date: 2015
Type: Working Paper
Rethinking conversion : beyond the religious and the secular
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2016/11, RELIGIOWEST
BLOUIN, Samuel, Rethinking conversion : beyond the religious and the secular, EUI RSCAS, 2016/11, RELIGIOWEST - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/38984
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This article seeks to pinpoint some of the consequences of the secularization process – conceived as the dissociation of religion from both state politics and culture – with the aim of broadening the conceptualization of conversion. Conversion is therefore considered to be a social fact beyond the religious and the secular, for which the concept of 'trans-formation' is employed in order to grasp this phenomenon. The concept of trans-formation posits processes of conversion as shifts from intimate convictions to public values. From this perspective, based on a pragmatic sociology of values, religious conversions are put forth as one possible way to qualify trajectories that the concept of trans-formation aims to comprehend. The article ends by considering the status of religious convictions in comparison with convictions otherwise qualified.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/38984
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2016/11; RELIGIOWEST
Grant number: FP7/269860