The psychological analysis of religious conversion in muhammad asad

At this work on Which religious conversion in Muhammad Asad is studied, in terms of religious conversion models, first of all the concept of religious conversion, the Works in this topic and the place of religious conversion concept in Psychology of Religion are mentioned. Then, a brief life story of Asad is mentioned, by dealing with the religious conversion in Asad in a theoretical approach, the motives of religious conversion, the developmental factors in religious conversion, the stages of religious conversion and the figures of religious conversion are studied. The religious conversion in Asad is analyzed in terms of conversion models accepted in Psychology of Religion taking his own Works as a base. In this sence, while the motives of religious conversion in Asad are considered by the approaches of Snow & Phillips, Glock and Gillespie, the developmental factors in religious conversion are considered by Erikson’s thoughts. The stages of religious conversion is considered by gradual classification of Lofland & Stark, Clark, Batson & Ventis and Köse. Lofland and Skonovd’s types are used while analyzing the figures of conversion. When considered the effects of psychological factors on the religious conversion of Asad, we see that beginning from his early adolescence his willing to understanding and his need to mental satisfaction are explicit. Asad is in need of reviewing the main points imposed by his cultere. He is disturbed by the ambiguities in society and his own life and he looks for answers to the universal meaning of life and questions ‘what is right? what is wrong?’. As a result of his seeking, he accepts Islam as his religion and he gains a feeling of belonging, admission and a change of rearranging himself radically. By accepting Islam he feels that all his seekings finish and his desire of depending on a certain intellectua orbit and being a part of fellows community come true