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In strife-ridden Albania, a twelve year old girl recognized her divine callings to be helping the poor and downtroden. By the age of seventeen she had taken the important decision of becoming a nun. In 1928 Sister Agnes, having devoted herself to her faith and given up her initial identity of Agnes Bojaxhiu, set sail for India. India would become her adopted homeland. By giving dignity to the downtrodden and comfort to the abandoned, this land would raise her the ...
Drawing on insights from psychology sociology, anthropology, history, theology, and missiology, the author provides a critique and evaluation of religious conversion throughout the world. The book examines the role of cultural and social factors in the conversion process, and describes how different religions and disciplines view conversion. The reader’s knowledge is enhanced with a heightened sense of the richness and multi-dimensionality of the conversion ...
