改宗
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改宗、改信,轉投另一宗教宗派,排斥其他流派,有時會借用皈依,佛教用語,本身講佛教入信儀式。咁樣,亦即放棄原本所屬宗派,改信另一教派。唔同宗教得,同一宗教都得,好似基督教新教轉天主教,回教什葉派轉遜尼派[1]。 有啲會標誌宗教身份轉變,由特別儀式去象徵[2]。
改信好多原因。主動皈依,自由選擇[3]。次要皈依,屋企羣體轉變而來。臨終皈依,就快死時完成儀式。方便皈依,生活上容易一啲。婚姻皈依,跟配偶而變。強制皈依,經武力等恐嚇手段。改信可以出於實際考慮。史上,有啲人想避稅、避兵役,爭取政治代表權而改宗[4]。
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[編輯]- ↑ Stark, Rodney and Roger Finke. "Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion." University of California Press, 2000. p.114. ISBN 978-0-520-22202-1
- ↑ Meintel, Deirdre. "When There Is No Conversion: Spiritualists and Personal Religious Change". Anthropologica. 49 (1): 149–162.
- ↑ Falkenberg, Steve. "Psychological Explanations of Religious Socialization." Religious Conversion. Eastern Kentucky University. August 31, 2009
- ↑ Mikdashi, Maya (2022-05-03), "Chapter 3 Regulating Conversion: Sovereignty, Bureaucracy, and the Banality of Religion", Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon (英文), Stanford University Press: 83–116, doi:10.1515/9781503631564-005, ISBN 978-1-5036-3156-4, 喺2025-02-26搵到