2004
Volume 52, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 2542-6583
  • E-ISSN: 2590-3268

Abstract

Abstract

This article gives an example of a narrative approach to the study of conversion. Within a narrative psychology of religion, conversion can be understood as a self-narrative that is told as a coherent life story by adopting the communicative model of the ritual of conversion. According to Stromberg (1993), the conversion story allows the converts a kind of self-transformation by reframing their conflicts in the terms of a certain religious language. By analysing self-narratives of women who joined a charismatic women’s group (AGLOW), examples of the religious structure of a life story and of the possibilities of self-transformation are given.

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