Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion

by Bob Altemeyer

Book Overview

This groundbreaking study uncovers fascinating new data on sudden shifts in religious and nonreligious belief. Amazing Conversions explores, for the first time ever, the reasons why converts join, and apostates go. The focus of this absorbing study is on some amazing people, with unique stories to tell those who join a religious group in spite of being raised in nonreligious (or even antireligious) families, and those who, at great personal cost,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573921475
• ISBN13: 9781573921473
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"