IT has been shown in a number of studies.that about thirty percent of religious people report a more or less sudden experience, while the others become gradually more religious as a result of social influences.' Religious has often been considered to be, caused by a type of temporary neurotic condition, resolution of which results in the establishment of a new life . Definitions of the term conversion generally emphasize this aspect, e. g.:
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Gordon Stanley (1964) studied this question.