Success and failure in conversion narratives (1).

From: International Review of Mission | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Lienemann-Perrin, Christine | Copyright information

Introduction

Debates about conversion and proselytism have been gaining momentum around the globe in recent years. This is happening for several reasons but especially because the number of new constitutional democracies that have been created in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America during the last two decades are more than matched by the number of civil wars that have shaken and destabilized states undergoing acute transition in the same period. The modern hum...

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