Navigating (De)Conversion While Maintaining Social Relations Across Different Religions in Flanders (Belgium).
Religious (de)conversion trajectories often involve shifts in social networks, both within and outside religious communities. This paper explores two key aspects: first, the strategies used by (de)converts in Flanders (Belgium) to communicate their (de)conversion, and second, how they experienced th...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Religion Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 268 - 292 |
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