For more than a century, anti-Catholicism was a powerful force in the region’s culture and politics. But religious pluralism ultimately triumphed in the ‘Queen City.’
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The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
Like Bad Bunny’s music, Puerto Rican Muslims’ lives challenge ideas about race, religion and belonging in the Americas.
Pastors have a limited role in asylum processes of Christian converts.
Conversion can be an exhilarating experience, but can come with a significant social toll.
Since the 1920s Pentecostal churches have had a major impact in South Africa’s Indian community. Their converts have grown larger than all the other Christian denominations put together.
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Professor, Coventry University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Religious and Secular Studies, Lancaster University
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford
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Affiliate Researcher, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Bayreuth University
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Miami University