ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the techniques employed to foster conversion and observed the evolution of several people into converts. It summarizes generalizations about the conversions in the report "Becoming a World-Saver", a report that has received a gratifying amount of attention over the years. The chapter offers some new data on the conversion efforts of the same millenarian movement as it operates a decade later. It also assesses the new data's implications for the initial world-saver model, and to share some broader reflections on the model itself. The world-saver model is antiinteractionist, or at least against the interactionism frequently identified with people such as Blumer. Straus's (1976) "Changing Oneself: Seekers and the Creative Transformation of Life Experience" is an important initial effort to lay down new pathways of analysis within such an activist-interactionist perspective. Looking back from the perspective of a decade, students of conversion have ample reason for celebration and optimism.
