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Key BIB14506
Reference type Thesis
Title Change of Mind or Heart?: Some Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics of Religious Conversions
Author Ullman, Chana
Year1979
Date 1979
Abstract This study focused on the relative predominance of cognitive and emotional factors in precipitating religious conversions. Three hypotheses derived from cognitive theories of behavior were examined. Converts and non-converts differed markedly on all the variables that measured emotional dynamics and well-being. Converts reported a more stressful and traumatic childhood and a more stressulf adolescence as compared to non-converts. The incidence of father-absence and of conflictual relationship with the father were particularly high in the converts' sample. Atnecedents to conversion indicated a high frequency of stress and emotional turmoil prior to the conversion and a low frequency of cognitive search.
Notes Ph.D.
Baha'i Fath: pp. v, 34, 36, 37, 39, 67, 70, 72, 95, 96, 97, 117, 188.
Language English
Keywords CONVERSION
Number of pages [iv], ix, 186
University Boston University

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