Resumen

CASTANEDA-SEIJAS, Minerva Yoimy. Experiencia de ser otro: la conversión de las identidades en la Iglesia adventista. LiminaR [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.2, pp.106-121. ISSN 2007-8900.

The objective in this article is to analyze conversion narratives to the Adventist Church in Tapilula, Chiapas. Its proposal is a theoretical and methodological built on following some author's theories that problematize the conversion experience in order to understand the meaning in the converts and by this, to analyze those experiences from the categorization process. It is contrasted three narratives of conversion that result representatives of the process of conversion. Those narratives are interpreted from the pragmatic theory of W. James. Thus, it is showed that the narratives of the converts are an analytic strategy of those conversion processes because they allow us to understand as well as the subject experience and the context in which the change is produced. It also allow us to understand the way the identity conversion is built from the itineraries of the experience as well as the notions of future the Adventist Church guarantee for their followers.

Palabras llave : conversion experiences; Adventists, conversion narratives; religious change; religious diversity.

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