Conversion or Addiction
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Behavioral Scientist
- Vol. 20 (6) , 909-924
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000276427702000607
Abstract
Simmonds has gathered the only personality assessment data known about for participants in the Jesus movement and uses some of it here to support his provocative idea that conversion to the movement does not entail conversion in the traditional sense of the term, but instead represents a shift in addiction.Keywords
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