Denominations

The aim of this paper is to describe temporality in terminological definitions as an effect
of enunciative agency determined by the constitutive relation between language and interdiscourse. Acase
study is developed on official documents produced in the process of terminological redefinition of the
category of “planet”, which was vigorously debated during the XXVI General Assembly of the International
Astronomy Union, at Prague, in august, 24
th
of 2006. It is argue that an enunciative approach leads to
describe scientific terms and their redefinitions in the context of the text where they are introduced and
of its relations with other texts, in order to be able to interpret the way enunciative agency determines
both temporality and the construction of reference

Alexander Campbell is arguably the most influential leader in the history of the American Restoration Movement, which emerged from the Second Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century and sought to reunite Christians by rejecting human creeds, breaking ties with denominations, and rediscovering the essential core Christian beliefs and practices in the Bible alone. Some four million people in a handful of Christian groups today find roots in this movement, including the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, the a capella Churches of Christ, and the International Churches of Christ. The earliest major document in this movement was the “Declaration and Address,” written by Alexander’s father, Thomas Campbell. In that work the senior Campbell denounced denominationalism as a great evil which divides the body of Christ. In 1832, the group led by the Campbells merged with a similar movement in Kentucky that began under the leadership of an American-born Presbyterian named Barton W. Stone. Thus the terms Restoration Movement and Stone-Campbell Movement have come to be used interchangeably.

Monepiscopacy definition: a form of church government in which a single governing bishop or leader is appointed in a local church, region, or over an entire denomination. This development was a departure from the earliest church model for governing Christian communities typically having a collegial type of leadership in which a group of men share the responsibility of leading and teaching, as among a group of colleagues.

Leitungah pawlpi tam mah mah in koi pawlpi ah lut ding le suak ding cih pen mi khempeuh phial ii ngaihsut khat a hihi. Tua ahih leh I ngaihsut beh ding khat hong om a, Tapidaw I cih kua te hiam? Tapidaw i cih in Zeisu Khazih nungzui cihna a hihi. Tua hi leh "Zeisu in bang pawlpi ahi diam" cih a hihi. Tuhun in Zeisu hongpai hi leh bang pawlpi azuan diam? cih ngaihsut huai mahmah thu a hihi. Leitungah amau leh amau Tapidaw a kici pawlpi bekbek 47,000 val bang om hi. Tua a hih mawk leh akhial khat om cih i phawk hong kul hi. Zeisu Khazih khat bek hi napi, Ama' min suang bekbek pawlpi 47,000 val cihmawk pen hong ngaihsut huai mahmah ta hi. Tua ahih leh tua pawlpi khempeuh a maan uh diam? Maan thei khial thei hi. Tu in hih tawh kisai thupi leh theih huai a hih manin mipi in I tel zawk theih nang in ikikup dingin hong telkhia ka ahihi. Gentehna in ken gutui thawl khat nei in tua pen, "gutui hi, na dawn leh si ding" hong ci leng, kua ma'n dawn hetlo ding hi. Ahizongin, tua gutui tawmcik la in singgahtui tawh hel in hong pia leng, dawn in si ding hi uh teh. Lai Siangtho sungah Dawimangpa pen mikhempa ci in gen hi. Khemna i cih pen ahoih leh asia tawmtawm kigawm ahi hi. Zeisu in thumaan leh Lai Siangtho a zat teh Dawimangpa in zong, asia leh apha hel in zangh hi. Tua bangin ahelzau ciangin mite akhemzo pan ahihi. Ahizongin "To nih na, kuamah in sem theilo hi. Pasian na leh Dawimangpa na kisem khawm theilo hi. Khat it in khat na mudah kul hi" ci-in Zeisu'n gen hi. Zeisu in "Kei hong pawlpih lote kei hong langpangte hi" ci hi. Tu-in kong genbeh nop lai ah a kipatcil in Zeisu in pawlpi neilo hi. Matthai 16:18 ah Zeisu in Peter kiangah, "Nang Peter (petros)," na hi aa (Greek lai in petros hi a, masculine singular, suangneu cih na ahihi), hih Suangpi tungah ka pawlpi ka phut ding hi ci hi." Pawlkhat te in Peter tungah pawlpi phut ding hi ci-in ngaihsun uh hi. Hilo deuh hi. Peter pen suangneu hi a, Suangpi pen Zeisu bek a hihi. Tua ahih manin Peter in "Nang, Zeisu Khazih, anung ta Pasian tapa na

Nowadays, to refer to the spoken language in a determined region as for example
Kabylia, we can use several terms. In a French text we can say: Berber, the Amazigh
language, Amazigh, tamazight or Kabyle. In the spoken language of the region, the
common glottonyms would be taqbaylit or tamazight .
In principle, these terms are used as if they were referring to the same object, in this
case to the same language. This is the basic rule of Saussure’s ‘Signifiant’ and ‘Signifié’.
Theoretically, all these names should have – according to linguistic rules - two facets: on
the one hand a denotation thus a bundle of perfectly describable characteristics of the object
‘language’ as a system to which the term refers and on the other hand a connotation or
rather uncountable connotations that cause the pronunciation of this term. But, in the
exemplary case of Berber languages, if we analyse the terms amazigh and taqbaylit, from
the point of view of fields covered by their denotation and their connotation, we would
realize that they would not coincide. Nevertheless they are used as synonyms.
This contribution analyses the evolution of linguistic uses which refer to the spoken
language in Kabylia and their fluctuation according to the historical and ideological context
but also to the linguistic constraints. Therefore confusion and manipulation are made possible
through the fact that the terms do not refer to the same objects nor to the same connotations.

El avance del proyecto de NOM 199 para obligar a los destiladores de agave a denominarse “komiles” demuestra oídos sordos a los casos exitosos no en el contexto local, sino global, y prueba el fracaso de las denominaciones de origen que en lugar de funcionar como detonadoras del desarrollo regional y promover la diversidad de productores pretende aniquilarlos.

This paper, The Nasara in the Koran, focuses precisely on the Koranic Text and Historical Primary Evidences that written in the 7th and 8th Century.

The Found Primary Evidences of the Syriac and Greek sources, alongside with the Koranic Text ,we are proposing the term ‘’Nasara’’ is a Judeo-Christian denomination that had lived in Jordan region throughout their lives. Yet the term ‘’Nasara’’ in the Koranic text indicates this Denomination in the Jordan region instead of whole Christians and Christianity.

This paper presents the results of a study in the field of speech linguistics, which studies linguistic phenomena starting from the activity of speaking, not from language. From the perspective of the three linguistic levels proposed by Eugenio Coseriu, the creation of metaphors is situated at the universal level. This paper investigates the common ground that integral linguistics and cognitive semantics share. An illustrative case study is proposed in order to highlight the manner in which the two semantic approaches may complement one another to the benefit of research in the field of metaphor.

Exploration of the early silver coinage of Miletos. Some findings have been expanded upon in Small Change for the Poor, Volume 2, ca. 550-375, and note that the earliest electrum coinage is undoubtedly a product of the period from 670 to 650 BCE..

“Amish Mennonite” is a movement properly understood as a stream of Amish that parallels, but is independent of, the Old Order Amish. One main group within the movement, the Beachy Amish Mennonites, arose in the 1920s as Amish with automobiles, but moved out of the Old Order stream by the 1950s when automobile ownership became a firm boundary delineating the Old Order. What exactly bounded the Beachy movement from then on became contested in each successive generation. The influence of external ideologies, varying levels of emphasis on continuity with previous generations, and population growth all contributed to the rise of alternative movements within this Amish Mennonite movement. Today, several Amish Mennonite denominations and several loose networks exist. Each has developed symbolic boundaries and intercongregational institutions with which to define their movement. The history of the Amish Mennonite movement is one of redefining and retracing boundaries as new groups continued to emerge. This article attempts to clarify the place of Amish Mennonites within the broader taxonomy of North American Anabaptists groups.

Since the rise of the religious right, scholars have become increasingly interested in studying conservative Protestantism. Not only do conservative Protestants (CPs) make up at least a quarter of the US population; they differ from many Americans in gender-role attitudes, childrearing styles, political orientation, and other ways as well. In fact, religious factors often predict people’s political views better than do either class or gender, even though the latter two have received far more attention in the scholarly literature (Manza & Brooks 1997, Kellstedt et al 1996b). Unfortunately research in this area has been hampered by imprecise measurement and poor understanding of the various movements grouped together as CPs. This has muddied statistical results, stifled theoretical development, and blinded researchers to promising areas of analysis. Thus, in this chapter we first discuss the history and distinctive qualities of the various CP movements, then we use these insights to propose better survey measures, and finally we apply this knowledge to several substantive areas (i.e., gender-role attitudes, childrearing styles, tolerance, the .culture wars,. the religious right, and the reasons for the religious vitality of CP groups).

Portraits of rulers and burghers as biblical figures: The biblical portrait historié in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th centuries Since the Middle Ages rulers and burghers have been depicted in the guise of well-known biblical figures. In these portraits historiés individuals could, for example, be depicted as the Old Testament king David, or the shepherds adoring Christ. The Modern Devotion stimulated an intimate relationship with biblical figures, and portraits historiés in Passion scenes reflect such spiritual notions. Through biblical portraiture, believers could place themselves in the skin of heroes of faith, such as the Apostles at the Last Supper, and be part of the cloud of witnesses. In the Reformation era, the portrait historié proved a suitable means for propagating adherence to a certain denomination. The individuals portrayed used the well-known visual language of the bible to take a stance in theological debates and to make this complex matter intelligible.

The called today "Athlantic Ocean" was not designed in the Antiquity by the addition of these two concepts. They mean two different conceptions of the world. There were also another expressiones for designe it, like "Exterior sea ". El lejano Oeste fue escenario no bien conocido, desde luego, pero de mención inevitable en el desarrollo de los mitos griegos. Particularmente importante fue la ubicación prácticamente definitiva de las Columnas de Hércules en el estrecho de Gibraltar. Pero precisa¬ mente Hércules había sido, según sus andanzas míticas, uno de los héroes del entorno olímpico más relacionado con dioses extraolímpi-cos tanto del grupo de los titanes como del reino de Hades. Es por otra parte una evidencia que el reino citado que lo es de la obscuridad, del fin de la ecumene, etc. tenía que acabar por aposentarse en el extremo más occidental posible del mundo por la propia mecánica interna del mito. De otro lado, ha sido estudiada la relación semántica entre Tâprapoç y Tapxrioaôç1. Igualmente veremos que el anochecer del mundo era morada de Titanes, no de Olímpicos. 1 Cf. Str. III, 2,12; J. Vara. ¿Tàpxapoç origen, en forma y función de TapTncroôç? Zephyrus XXXIV-XXXV, 1982, p. 239 s.; cuyo pirronismo no compartimos; E. Gangutia, "La Península Ibérica en la tradición homérica", Actas VIICEEC, ID ed. Madrid, 1989 p. 105.

Baptismal regeneration by the washing of water with the Word was confessed in a distinctly insightful and Scriptural way by early American Lutheran theologian David Henkel (1795-1831).  Yet his writings caused a reaction and written controversy with Methodist pastor Joseph Moore.  This paper will examine Henkel's baptismal theology, Moore's Protestant objections to Henkel's arguments, and Henkel's rebuttal to Moore's objections.  This is valuable for theological discussions today between different denominations, as many of Moore's arguments are still used to challenge baptismal regeneration and Henkel's responses are still fitting.

This study has explored the criminal cases involving Jews heard in Krakow District Court in the period 1939-1944. Among those documents, there are also 23 denunciations from different periods submitted to German authorities, of social, economic, racial, and political nature. There are also cases linked to blackmailing Jews. The article examined the most important criminal cases involving Jews, specificity the work of the court regarding the individual matters as following: seizure of property; acts of violence; forgery and theft of documents. The study has found the significant differences between the criminal cases conducted by the court before and after the Reinhardt Action.

The career of 19th century German-American church historian, Philip Schaff, represents an early instance of cross-Atlantic endeavor that would be recognized by later historians as ecumenical.  This article examines the pattern of proto-ecumenical endeavor that Schaff embodied and identifies some inheritors of his legacy, including S. Parkes Cadman, H. Richard Niebuhr, Douglas Horton, and Gabriel Fackre.

The main issue of the article is due to language pathology matters. It presents a case study of an aphasic patient. The objective is essentially to investigate the patient production in terms of paraphasia and the phenomenon of Category specific semantic deficit. The function of denomination is then analyzed on the basis o a visual stimulus.  The type of aphasia discussed is ‘conduction aphasia’. This choice is mainly rooted from the fact that it is mostly associated with the abundant production of paraphasias. Some results of the performed tasks indicate high concordance with theories dealing with linguistic deficits of aphasic patients.  During the denomination task, the patient shows a high production of paraphasic errors of varied types. However, this task is unable to prove the existence of category specific semantic deficit. This is only achieved on the basis of the other tasks in which letter and number denomination show to be selectively well retained. A secondary objective is to study the same issues in French and to compare the findings with those discussed in the Tunisian dialect. The analysis proves that the linguistic deficit appears in both languages with certain differences.

Keywords:  Category-specific Semantic Deficit, Conduction aphasia, Denomination, Paraphasia

One of the chief issues rejected by the Supreme Court of India in a 4:1 judgement that allowed entry of women of menstruating age into the temple of Swami Ayyappa at Sabarimala, was its denominational character. This article argues that Ayyappa worship does constitute a separate denomination.

Many modern Western marriage rituals—from engagement, to the wedding ceremony, to post-union practices such as female surname change—are clearly patriarchal. Various customs, including engagement rings that act as modern dowries, separate wedding vows where the woman “loves, honors,  and obeys” and the man “loves, honors, and cherishes,” and unequal childrearing, create a system that oppresses women and subordinates them both within and outside of the home. The Christian ritual of marriage, however, redeems patriarchal marriage through emphasis on sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church1 and on covenant in Protestant denominations.

From a reflection on Saussure's theory of language and psychoanalysis, the article shows how an anthropological and social imagination is one of the bases of the nomination process. The examples given are borrowed from the Ticuna language in West Amazonas, the spoken language of coal miners in northern France and some french slang designations, including those linking sexuality and food.

The writer’s religious heritage, the Stone-Campbell Movement is deeply rooted in anti-denominational theory and rhetoric. In a widely distributed tract entitled Neither, Catholic, Protestant, Nor Jew, the anti-denominational sentiment is expressed, “Using the New Testament as our blueprint we have re-established in the twentieth century Christ’s church.  It fits no modern label.  It is not just another denomination.”  Generally, this antagonism has prompted a vitriolic posture that has been empty of the ideological rationale beyond denominational theory.  Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify the ideological origins of American denominationalism.

During the XIX c a big wave of immigration occurred from the Netherlands to North America, specially to the United States. However, there were other, lest likely options for the Dutch to chose from, one of those was Argentina. This paper is a brief sketch of the Reformed Dutch immigration to Argentina during the XIX c.

Originally presented at the Concordia Theological Seminary Symposia in January of 2020, this article looks at three smaller church bodies that formed out of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod: The Orthodox Lutheran Conference, the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation, and the Federation for Authentic Lutheranism. It examines how the mid-twentieth century context helped to foster their formation.

In this paper, we proposed a system for automated currency recognition using image processing techniques. The
method proposed in this system can be used for recognizing both the country origin and denomination or value of a given
currency note. Only paper currencies have been taken here. The proposed method will first work by identifying the country of
origin using certain predefined areas of interest and then extracting features using characteristics such as size, color, or text
on the note to find the denomination of the notes. Feature extraction depends on how much the notes within the same country
differ. The output will be given in graphical user interface format and also in audio format. Our system is able to identify the
test notes quickly and accurately.

A Reinhard-Schilling-féle konfesszionalizáció-paradigma fogalomkészletéből kiindulva „második konfesszionalizációnak” a politikai határok változása következtében egy adott helyi társadalmon belül lezajló felekezetváltoztatási folyamatot nevezhetjük. Ennek különféle tényezői egy skálán helyezhetők el úgy a felekezethez tartozás, mint a hatalom „testi” és „lelki” komponensei alapján. A tanulmányban az erre tett kísérlet alapja idő- és térbeli példaként Baranya megyének a Habsburg-dinasztia vezette keresztény államba való, 17. század végén kezdődő integrálódása. A cél nem a vármegye története török kiűzése utáni fejezetének egy, legalább a katolikus felekezet gyarapodása vonatkozásában átfogó, az adatok szintjén is kimerítő bemutatása, hanem egy olyan értelmezési keret kidolgozása, amely a Magyarországon gyakorlatilag a 18. század végéig elhúzódó konfesszionalizáció Nyugat-Európához képest kései második szakaszára, erre a meglehetősen komplex jelenségre alkalmazható.
Mindezek révén bizonyos átmeneti, vagy mellékesen jelentkező formákon kívül alapvetően négy különböző forrás, módszer és alakító erő elkülönítésére nyílik lehetőség: a teljes mértékben „testi” és a világi hatalomtól függő végponttól, azaz a betelepítések következtében megjelenő új lakosságtól a más felekezetűek áttérésén és az új generációk oktatás-nevelésén át az adminisztratív értelemben katolikus, valójában inkább szubkonfesszionális közösségek teológiai értelemben vett megtéréséig mint a skála leginkább „lelki”, főleg a helybeli szerzetesség által befolyásolt végpontjáig.

On the conceptual basis of the confessionalisation paradigm of Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling, the term 'second confessionalisation' can be applied for the process of denominational changes in specific local societies due to the newly drawn political borders. The different elements of this process can be placed on various scales concerning e.g. confessional identity, or the 'spiritual' and 'physical' components of power. This study attempts to define such measures on an example in specific time and space: the integration of Baranya County in the Christian state under Habsburg rulership, starting at the end of the 17th century. My goal was not a comprehensive overview of the data related to the history of Catholicism in the county after the expulsion of the Ottomans, but rather to create an interpretative framework which could be applied for the rather complex phenomenon of the second period of the confessionalisation process, that in Hungary lasted till the end of the 18th century, thus quite late in contrast to Western Europe. As a result, four distinct sources, methods and creative powers could be specified (apart from some provisional and auxiliary forms): 1, a fully 'physical' method, depending heavily on secular power (that is, new population on account of settlement policies); 2, conversion of people from other denominations; 3, the Catholic education of new generations; 4, the 'metanoia' of those communities, which are Catholics in the administrative sense, but should actually be regarded as subconfessional, as the further end of the scale, the mostly 'spiritual' method, influenced mainly by the local religious orders.

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Since the publication of Kenneth Howard's 2017 article, "The Religion Singularity: A Demographic Crisis Destabilizing and Transforming Institutional Christianity," there has been an increasing demand to understand the root causes and historical foundations for why institutional Christianity is in a state of de-institutionalization. In response to Howard's research, a number of authors have sought to provide a contextual explanation for why the religion singularity is currently happening, including studies in epistemology, church history, psychology, anthropology, and church ministry. The purpose of this article is to offer a brief survey and response to these interactions with Howard's research, identifying the overall implications of each researcher's perspective for understanding the religion singularity phenomenon. It explores factors relating to denominational switching in Jeshua Branch's research, social memory in John Lingelbach's essay, religious politics in Kevin Seybold's survey, scientific reductionism in Jack David Eller's position paper, and institutional moral failure in Brian McLaren's article.

It is a widely known fact that the Prekmurje area of present-day Slovenia had not been in existence previous to the peace-treaties of World War I. Seeing that the area itself has been having recognizable Hungarian population, therefore the adapted Hungarian name 'Muravidék' (Mura Region) has recently started to spread among the Hungarians, but only primarily in Hungary. At the same time, this name is an unofficial term and it can be written as 'Mura-vidék' (Mura-region) or the original Slovenian geographical name can be directly translated as 'Murántúl' (Over-Mura/Transmura Region). These slight differences can easily confuse readers because the uniqueness Hungarian names cover different sized and populated areas. Among linguists, historians and scientific researchers these denominations get even more disturbing when various authors describe the Prekmurje as Pomurje, but it is rarely realized that the specific names cannot match, due to the fact that Pomurje is a geographical landscape and a Slovenian statistical region with wider territorial area. The author of this short review shows general translation problems with the geographical names of the Slovenian Prekmurje and Pomurje, and also tries to look for some Hungarian name solutions based on historical and geographical connections.

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Since the publication of Kenneth Howard's 2017 article, "The Religion Singularity: A Demographic Crisis Destabilizing and Transforming Institutional Christianity," there has been an increasing demand to understand the root causes and historical foundations for why institutional Christianity is in a state of de-institutionalization. In response to Howard's research, a number of authors have sought to provide a contextual explanation for why the religion singularity is currently happening, including studies in epistemology, church history, psychology, anthropology, and church ministry. The purpose of this article is to offer a brief survey and response to these interactions with Howard's research, identifying the overall implications of each researcher's perspective for understanding the religion singularity phenomenon. It explores factors relating to denominational switching in Jeshua Branch's research, social memory in John Lingelbach's essay, religious politics in Kevin Seybold's survey, scientific reductionism in Jack David Eller's position paper, and institutional moral failure in Brian McLaren's article.

The Eurozone crisis is the most important challenge that the European integration project has ever faced. This paper discusses the crisis as a complex problem of politics and economy and focuses on imbalances of the varieties of capitalism within the EU and structural problematic design of the Eurozone arrangement. Since the instruments for national monetary and fiscal policy are largely abolished, the governments have very little room for manoeuvre in the Eurozone. Moreover, austerity and falling living standards have created huge resentment among the European people and this pushed the populist parties towards more demagogic language and practices represent "bad ideas" such as "alternative currency". This paper examines Italy's mini-BOTS as a case study and concludes that the flaws of single currency could lead hesitation for the existence of the EU currency bloc.

For visually challenged people, distinguishing between different denominations of cash is a difficult process. Even though unique symbols are engraved on various currencies in India, the work is still difficult for blind individuals. The inadequacy of identifying devices prompted the development of a portable gadget for denominational segregation. This project aims to create an Android application that will assist visually and hearing-impaired people in detecting Indian cash denominations by putting a banknote in front of the camera. The work uses machine learning and Android programming approaches and is based on real-world applications. The android application uses text to speech concept to read the value of note to the user and then it converts the text value into speech. To harness the power of them all, we are leveraging the Keras, TensorFlow, Fastai, and PyTorch libraries, as well as different machine learning techniques like ResNet and MobileNet. Various technologies like machine learning models, python and many more libraries are used for the backend part of application. And for front end, java concepts and android development techniques are employed. Altogether they are integrated into a single platform which is highly user-friendly and makes it easy to use and implement in our daily life.

Dieser Beitrag erklärt, wie Lehrpersonen des konfessionell-kooperativen Religionsunterrichts aus Nordrhein-Westfalen die Religiosität ihrer SchülerInnen wahrnehmen und welche Rolle sie ihr angesichts des didaktischen Konzepts (authentische Sprechsituation, Standpunktfähigkeit, Perspektivenübernahme u.a.) zuschreiben. Als  Gründe für die Distanz der SchülerInnen gegenüber konfessionellen  Bezügen nennen diese u.a.: ausfallende religiöse Sozialisation, gemischt-konfessionelle bzw. gemischt-religiöse Elternhäuser, den Elternwillen, die Kinder religiös nicht zu vereinnahmen. Eine für den kokoRU notwendige konfessionelle Standpunktfähigkeit wird von den Lehrkräften nicht wahrgenommen, konfessionelles Bewusstsein sei für die SchülerInnen lebensweltlich irrelevant.

This contribution explains how teachers of cooperative religious  education (kokoRU) from North Rhine-Westphalia perceive the religiosity of their students and what role they ascribe to it in light of the didactic concept (authentic speaking situation, ability to take a stand, adopting perspectives, etc.). As reasons for  the  students’ distance from denominational references, they name, among other things, a lack of religious socialization, mixed-denominational or mixed-religious parental homes, and the parents’ desire not to monopolize their children with religion. The teachers do not perceive a confessional ability to take a stand that is necessary for kokoRU, a confessional consciousness is irrelevant for the students’ world of life.

Social scientists have long been interested in the effects of conversion on religiosity. Drawing on data from the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey, I revisit the zeal of the convert thesis by comparing the religiosity of both converts and cradle members within the main American religious traditions. My findings reveal that converts are not more zealous than lifelong members, in fact, converts tend to have lower levels of religious commitment. Switchers raised in strict denominations do exhibit greater zeal than cradle members. The discussion argues that people create new, hybrid forms of religious engagement based on elements from both their current and childhood religious identities. Conversion is less a sudden rupture involving dramatic, wholesale change; rather, it is a process in which some prior religious norms are retained alongside new ones.

I really enjoy reading books and studying ideas from outside my denominational framework. I believe God works through many different denominations, not just the one that I'm a part of. So I like to see, what am I maybe missing that other denominations are doing? What do they believe?  How do they practice their faith?