CHANGING FAITH: THE CONTEXTS OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION TO ISLAM IN HUNGARY

Hazim, Hazim (2020) CHANGING FAITH: THE CONTEXTS OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION TO ISLAM IN HUNGARY. Institute for Technology and Research (ITRESEARCH), Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract

This paper addresses religious conversion to Islam in Hungary which focuses on investigating the contexts influencing Hungarians to convert, and the process of becoming Muslims. This study involved three levels of analysis; micro-levels of converts, macro-levels of Hungarian political system, and the meso-level of Muslim communities. Becoming Muslim at the micro context can be categorized into finding recognition and active participants. The former depicts religious conversion encouraged by the willing to get mutual recognition either from family or romantic relationships. The latter refers to individuals’ decision to convert as a way of looking for meanings and purposes in theirlife,and the conversion process is generally more complicated than the former. At the macro context, the collapse of communism and the change of the Hungarian state system have impacted the legal support for Hungarians to getreligion freedoms, even to be Muslims. The meso-context analysis shows that the Hungarian Muslim communities provide social supports particularly for the category ofthe active participants to convert. However, all of the contexts are generally interconnected with each other impacting one change his religious identity.

Item Type:	Other
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Psychology > School of Psychologycal Science
Depositing User:	Hazim Hazim
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2023 21:48
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2023 21:48
URI:	http://eprints.umsida.ac.id/id/eprint/12650

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