Preface: The sociology of conversion / Roberto Cipriani
Introduction: The varieties of conversion experience / Giuseppe Giordan
The meaning of conversion : redirection of foundational trust / Anthony J. Blasi
Conversion : heroes and their sociological redemption / Kieran Flanagan
Elements for a semiotics of "conversion" / Patrick Michel
For love of faith : patterns of religious engagement in a new town / Kees de Groot
Pilgrimage and conversion / William H. Swatos, Jr.
Becoming a new ager : a conversion, an affiliation, a fashion? / Régis Dericquebourg
Enchantment, identity, community, and conversion : Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil / Roberto Motta
Convert, revert, pervert / Enzo Pace
Conversion as a new lifestyle : an exploratory study of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Luigi Berzano and Eliana Martoglio
Conversion as opposition / Giuseppe Giordan
Making the convert : conversions in the LDS community today / Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud
A cognitive psychology perspective on religious conversion as told in the Gospels / Stefano Federici, Pierluigi Caddeo, and Francesco Valerio Tommasi
Conversion and mission : missionary insertion and the social conditions of Christianization / Paul-André Turcotte.
Conversion in the age of pluralism. ISBN 9789004178038. Published by Brill in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.