The conversion process in stages: new Muslims in the twenty-first century
The conversion process in stages: new Muslims in the twenty-first century
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分阶段的皈依过程：二十一世纪的新穆斯林
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10.1080/09596410.2012.676782
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2012
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A. S. Roald
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作者：
A. S. Roald
本研究涉及皈依伊斯兰教过程中的各个阶段。然而，与对转换前阶段的广泛研究不同，这一贡献着眼于转换后的发展。皈依后的最初阶段会带来一种狂热，皈依者往往会变得“比国王更有王权”。第二阶段往往是对新的同伴群体感到失望的时期。第三个阶段是接受阶段，皈依者接受穆斯林是有缺点的“普通人”，而不是完全符合伊斯兰教“理想”的圣人。第四阶段是世俗化阶段，此时皈依者倾向于对宗教采取一种私人的宗教态度。这一阶段在很大程度上与9/11后的情况有关，在这种情况下，许多穆斯林感到被视为潜在的恐怖分子，但它也反映了皈依者融入穆斯林社区的程度。一些皈依者在第四阶段继续实践宗教戒律，而其他人则离开他们的宗教实践，成为不信教的穆斯林。根据苏斯曼的“性格”与“个性”的模态类型，还讨论了转换过程中的各个阶段。皈依者在接受伊斯兰教时倾向于采用模态类型的“性格”。然而，在第四阶段，转换者倾向于完全回归到“人格”的模态类型，他们中的大多数人都被社会化了。
This study deals with stages in the process of conversion to Islam. However, unlike the extensive research on pre-conversion stages, this contribution looks at post-conversion development. The initial stage after conversion brings with it a zealotry in which converts tend to become ‘more royal than the king’. The second stage tends to be a period of disappointment with the new peer group. The third stage is one of acceptance, when converts accept that Muslims are ‘ordinary’ human beings with shortcomings rather than saints who manage to totally live up to the ‘ideal’ of Islam. The fourth stage is one of secularization, when converts tend to adopt a private religious attitude to the religion. This stage is to a great extent linked to the post-9/11 situation, in which many Muslims feel targeted as potential terrorists, but it also reflects the extent to which converts integrate into Muslim communities. Some converts continue to practise religious precepts in this fourth stage, while others leave their religious practice and become non-practising Muslims. The stages in the conversion process are also discussed in terms of Susman's modal types of ‘character’ versus ‘personality’. Converts tend to adopt the modal type of ‘character’ as they embrace Islam. In the fourth stage, however, converts tend to return fully to the modal type of ‘personality’, the modal type into which most of them were socialized.