The Baha'i Studies Listserv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_converts
Wikipedia has nice examples of notable people who converted to/from any of the following: Bahai Faith Christianity (various denominational conversion as well) Islam Judaism Buddhism Hinduism Sikhism Atheism/Nontheism Confucianism Paganism/Neopaganism Zoroastrianism Sent from my iPad On Feb 12, 2013, at 22:43, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > What increase the chances of people converting to any religion? I looked it > up on Wikipedia, this is how religion spreads. > > Open air preaching (preaching out in public, in the open air) > Trickle down notoriety (famous/powerful people being an adherent) > Door to door preaching (associated with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons) > Sermons (preaching any time, any place) > Lifestyle (being seen as a well known virtuous righteous person as good > publicity) > Friendship (having friends of a particular religion) > Creativity (using art to promote religion) > Tract literature (passing out brochures promoting your religion) > Religious television programs (television shows promoting religion) > Religious radio programs (radio programs promoting religion) > Religious websites (websites promoting religion) > Phone preaching (use random calls to preach) > Creation (using Creationism to promote Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or > Hinduism) > Prophecy (using prophecy, by coming true, as proof of religion) > > I read that Baha'is can't do the door to door route. Sermons as well are > forbidden depending on the setting of the would be sermon. Also, Baha'is > don't believe in Creationism, because of science. > > Tactics I know Baha'is use: Trickle down notoriety because there are some > note worthy Baha'is. Lifestyle because Baha'is being Baha'is. Friendship > because they are to have friends of all religions. Creativity because of all > those presentations, most famous being Mona's. Religious websites because of > all those Baha'i websites. > > Sent from my iPad > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:skg_z...@yahoo.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-688026-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-688028-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
