The Dynamics of Conversion: A Watershed in How We Know

Abstract

Working out of an epistemology based on the philosophy of science, the author offers a ‘secular’ description of the patterns and causes of conversion, applying this to education.

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Joanmarie Smith

Dr. Joanmarie Smith lectures in the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. With Gloria Durka she is joint author of Modelling God; Religious Education for tomorrow, a joint editor of Aesthetic dimensions of Religious Education, Emerging Issues in Religious Education and Family Ministry. Her address is Methodist Theological School, Delaware, Ohio, 43015, USA. This article is based upon a paper delivered to the Fifth Session of the International Seminar for Religious Education and Values held near Dublin in June of 1986.