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Study of Deconversion
Children's Drawings I
Children's Drawings II
Inter-religious Learning
Adolescent Melancholia
Turkish Immigrants
Fundamentalism
Right-Wing Extremism
Fascination with Occult

Internat. Partners

The Bielefeld Team

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Faith Development Research Network

Changes in the contemporary religious field - key word are religious supermarket, generation of seekers, spiritual quest, irreverent spiritual quest - have implications not only for conversion itself, but call for a special focus on deconversion. Increasing religious mobility and permeability of religious organisations encourage a growing number of people to deconvert from all types of religious orientations. But research on the processes of deconversion and their outcomes is only begining. Therefore we think that, After a century of research on conversion, especially in the psychology of religion, it is time for research on deconversion.

Here is our contribution to deconversion research:

The Bielefeld-based Cross-cultural Deconversion Project is presented on our CIRRuS web site in some detail: we give and overview, summarize qualitative and quantitative results, the methods and the research team.

Results in more detail will be published in a new book (scheduled to appear in November 2008)

and the pilot study, completed in 1998: Enquete Project Fundamentalism

We aware of deconversion research in other countries. And we would like to invite colleagues who are interested or already engaged in deconversion research to join the yahoo group which has been created especially for networking among deconversion researchers; to visit or join this group, follow this link: .http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/deconversionresearch/ or click the button.