The Transformed Self

Ullman, Chana

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“…Conversion experiences are among the most personally significant life-changing religious or spiritual experiences (James, 1902/2004; Rambo & Bauman, 2012; Rambo & Farhadian, 2014; Ullman, 1989). The literature is rich with theoretical perspectives on the course, causes, and consequences of religious conversion (for a review see Rambo & Farhadian, 2014).…”

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Life-changing religious and spiritual experiences: A cross-faith comparison in the United States.

Gutierrez¹,

Hale²,

Park³

2018

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Life-changing religious and spiritual experiences shape people’s lives and form a central part of the autobiographical narratives of many Americans. As such, they have been key phenomena of interest among social scientists. However, the likelihood of individuals experiencing life-changing religious or spiritual experience across diverse faith traditions has yet to be studied. The current study explores the incidence of reporting life-changing religious or spiritual experiences among adherents of 6 world religious traditions as well as atheists and agnostics living in the United States (N = 970). We account for subjective religiousness, subjective spirituality, and impression management in our analysis of interfaith differences in rates of life-changing religious and spiritual experience. Findings revealed interreligious differences in the incidence of religious experience, with Protestants and Muslims more likely to report having had a life-changing religious and spiritual experience, and Jews, Catholics, and atheists/agnostics reporting comparatively fewer of these experiences. While religiousness and spirituality were associated with the likelihood of having had a life-changing religious or spiritual experience across religions, impression management was only minimally associated with religious experience. Our results suggest that an individual’s religious culture is strongly related to that person’s likelihood of having a life-changing religious or spiritual experience.

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Section: Significance Of the Incidence Of Life-changing Religious Or ...mentioning

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Life-changing religious and spiritual experiences: A cross-faith comparison in the United States.

Gutierrez¹,

Hale²,

Park³

2018

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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“…James recognized that at conversion the divided self is unified and happier while Ullman found that conversion provides relief to emotional turmoil. 10 Chana Ullman considered the effect of conversion is the transformed self. She found that the attachment to a 'real or imagined figure' transforms the converts.…”

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“…She found that the attachment to a 'real or imagined figure' transforms the converts. 11 Lewis Rambo identified that converts found a new sense of intimate relationship with God, 'God is no longer an abstract concept but a living reality'. 12 Zinnbauer and Pargament found that the converts experienced 'significant improvements in their sense of self, self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-identity'.…”

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confidence: 99%

Religious Conversion: A Psycho-spiritual Perspective

Iyadurai

2014

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission St

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This article argues that religious conversion cannot be explained simply as a psychological process, but involves a spiritual dimension which gains greater significance from a phenomenological perspective. Analysing a single narrative of conversion in light of the other studies, the author argues for an integrated, psycho-spiritual, approach, and points out the centrality of religious experience in conversion. He claims that conversion triggers transformation in various aspects of the converts’ life.

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“…That the need for meaning and purpose is a reason people turn to religion has been argued by philosophers and social scientists for some time (e.g., Clark 1958; Spilka, Hood, and Gorsuch 1985). Indeed, one of the more well documented findings in social scientific studies of religious behavior is that religious conversions are often preceded by traumatic experiences and stressful circumstances that render the former worldview and life path of the convert both devoid of meaning and purpose (e.g., Downton 1980; Kox, Meeus, and Hart 1991; Ullman 1989). Therefore, this analysis predicts that there will be a positive correlation between a lack of meaning and purpose and interest in the church (H2).…”

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“…Social scientists who study persuasion and attitude change in religious contexts have for some time been interested in factors that may predispose certain audiences to be more interested in and accepting of the ideas, promises, and proposed social dynamics of religious movements and organizations than other audiences (e.g., Granqvist 1998; Granqvist and Hagekull 1999; Kirkpatrick and Shaver 1990; Lofland and Stark 1965; Ullman 1989; Zinnbauer and Pargament 1998). Over the years, research has demonstrated that the way people react to religious exhortations and promotions depends on a number of predisposing factors.…”

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Predicting Reaction to a Message of Ministry: An Audience Analysis

Wright

2008

Scientific Study of Religion

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This study investigated whether audience characteristics identified as important in the conversion and religious recruitment literature could predict reaction to a Christianity-themed recruitment message. More specific goals involved (a) comparing the impact of potential recruits' dispositional attributes and personal motivations versus their situational availability on the persuasive effect of religious recruitment messages; and (b) rank ordering the audience characteristics examined based on their predictive power. Results indicated that dispositional and motivational considerations were more reliable predictors of receivers' responses to the recruitment message than were situational factors. Specifically, five of the six dispositional and motivational variables (i.e., loneliness, perceived childhood attachment history, meaning and purpose, other-orientation, and problem-solving perspective) were-at least under certain conditions-related to participants' interest in the church. The two variables representing situational availability, free time and membership status, however, were either unrelated to interest in the church or related to participants' reactions, but in the opposite direction of what was expected.

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The Transformed Self

Cited by 82 publications

References 42 publications

Life-changing religious and spiritual experiences: A cross-faith comparison in the United States.

Life-changing religious and spiritual experiences: A cross-faith comparison in the United States.

Religious Conversion: A Psycho-spiritual Perspective

Predicting Reaction to a Message of Ministry: An Audience Analysis

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