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September 2023

September 11, 2023

Vander Elst: The British Atheist Who Converted Because of the Problem of Evil

Philip Vander Elst is a freelance writer and lecturer who works primarily in the fields...

August 2023

August 07, 2023

A Return to Rambo: Testing the most Famous Model of Religious Conversion

Religious Conversion: The Standard Model This column has covered the famous and influential model of...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

The Science Behind Religious Conversion

The Nature of Research When William James formed his model of religious conversion in 1902,...

March 2023

March 20, 2023

Psychology and Religious Deconversion: What we Know so far

The Beginning of High Profile Deconversion In modern times, the first high-profile Christians to make...

March 13, 2023

Lone Christians: People who Exit the Church but not the Faith

Today, nearly half of America is unchurched. But even though more and more Americans are abandoning...

February 2023

February 16, 2023

The Asbury Revival and Religious Intensification Phenomenon

On February 8th, of 2023, a group of students at Asbury University, a private Christian...

February 13, 2023

“Stages of Faith,” What can 50-Year-Old Research Tell Us About Conversion and Deconversion?

Stages of Faith is a 1981 book by psychologist James Fowler wherein he lays out...

January 2023

January 23, 2023

The Boy Preacher who Became an Adult Atheist Advocate: Anthony Pinn

As a column that discusses the process of religious conversion and deconversion, this space will...

January 16, 2023

What the Book “How Minds Change” Tells us About Deconversion

How Minds Change is a book by David McRaney in which the author, a science...

January 09, 2023

Deconversion and “Cuss-Words”

Thirty or forty years ago, investigating the phenomenon of religious deconversion would have been a...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Deconversion and “Selective Perception”

In 2019, researchers Perez and Vallieres conducted an in-depth study on the subject of deconversion....

December 02, 2022

Study: Could Religious People Be More Complex Thinkers Than Irreligious People

Testing Thought Complexity It's a fairly common trope: religious people are knuckle-dragging uneducated troglodytes more...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Cameron Bertuzzi and Interfaith Conversion

Cameron Bertuzzi is an influential speaker and media producer in the popular field of Christian...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

Testify! The Religious Testimony Versus the Deconversion Story

CONVERSION NARRATIVES Starbuck (1866-1947) and James (1902) were pioneers in the field of Conversion studies....

October 17, 2022

Comparison Between Religious Conversion and Deconversion

It has long been argued in religious conversion studies whether there is a significant difference...

September 2022

September 08, 2022

The Little Cult that Could Part 1: how one religious movement taught us all about conversion

The Conversion of Yoon-Sook Lee Miss Yoon-Sook Lee had a problem. It started as chronic...

September 05, 2022

The Science of Religious Conversion – A Brief History

Pre-Scientific Views on Conversion People have been practicing religion since the dawn of human history,...