ABSTRACT

Religious conversion has always been an important factor in the processes of transmission and globalization of religion. It involves compromise and innovative interpretation, conditioned by the cultural and religious backgrounds of the targeted group and by the proselytizers’ methods and reasons for conversionary efforts. A process of religious conversion necessarily involves a certain degree of intercultural exchange that takes place in specific historical, social and cultural settings. In that regard, it is to some degree similar to the process of translation between different modes of expression.