Human Rights and Religious Conversion
İNSAN HAKLARI VE DİN DEĞİŞTİRME

Author : -M. Ali KİRMAN
Number of pages : 8-21

Abstract

In this paper, the phenomenon of religious conversion and its reasons and consequences (including social, economic, religious, and psychological) will be examined in sociological perspectve by dealing with basic human rights. Afer briefly presentng the informaton about the phenomenon of religious conversion and its reasons and consequences in sociological perspectve, I note the importance of models of religious freedom, or distncton between convertng and proselytzing. Conversion is an individual choice, but proselytzing is stgmatzed. The basic theme of this study of religious conversion is that the effects of modernizaton and secularizaton had also seen in the most intmate or private sphere.

Keywords

Religious conversion, human rights, secularizaton, models of religious freedom, convertng, proselytzing, mission

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