The experience of religious conversion
Date of Publication
2009
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Psychology
Thesis Adviser
Homer J. Yabut
Defense Panel Member
Roberto E. Javier, Jr.
Abstract/Summary
The current study describes the experience of religious conversion across three dimensions: cognitive, affective, and social. In the cognitive dimension, religious conversion involves questioning of life and/or religion and the acceptance of new beliefs. In the affective dimension, the experience involves initial feelings of uncertainty, disquiet and emptiness, and then feelings of peace and fulfillment after the acceptance of the new religion and its beliefs. In the social dimension, it involves knowing about the new religion through its members participants also underwent changes in lifestyle and personality after their conversion.
The results of the study follow a more social model of conversion wherein religion, through its members, played the active role in conversion experience of the participants. It was also concluded that conversion is an act of resolving dissonance, and that role learning and conjoint agency can explain the social changes involved in conversion.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU15764
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
120 leaves ; 29 cm.
Keywords
Conversion; Psychology, Religious
Recommended Citation
Llave, C. S., Yap, J. L., & Kim, H. (2009). The experience of religious conversion. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7122