Essay of Trialectic Modelization of Religious Conversion
Religious conversion is seen as a form of the return of religion in the secular societies. To understand this metamorphosis of the religious landscape, several disciplines have become interested in studying the causes of religious conversion. Equipped with its conceptual and theoretical apparatus, each discipline has contributed elements of knowledge which have contributed to the understanding of the causes of religious conversion. However, this monodisciplinary knowledge led to the explosion of the research object. This article is an attempt to reconcile the various readings of religious conversion. First, we emphasize the dissemination of knowledge which deals with the causes of religious conversion. Then, we prepare the ground for an interdisciplinary reading by adopting relational theory. Finally, we set the stage for a trialectical modelization of the causal links of religious conversion. We are presenting a theoretical apparatus that has been empirically tested as part of a doctoral project.