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Converts

Here are entered general works on persons who have changed their religious affiliation or adopted a new religious affiliation. Works on converts to specific religions are entered under headings of the type Buddhist converts; Christian converts; etc. Works emphasizing the religion from which conversion takes place are entered under headings of the type Muslim converts from Bahai Faith; Muslim converts from Christianity; Christian converts from Hinduism; etc.

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• Religious adherents

• Converts -- Burma
• Christian converts
• Crypto-Jews
• Muslim converts

• The Karen Apostle: or, Memoir of Ko Thah-Byu, the First karen Convert; With an Historical and Geographical Account of the Nation, its Traditions, Precepts, Rites, &c. (fourth thousand; Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1847), by Francis Mason, ed. by Henry J. Ripley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Karen Apostle: or, Memoir of Ko Thah-Byu, the First karen Convert; With an Historical and Geographical Account of the Nation, its Traditions, Precepts, Rites, &c. (fourth thousand; Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1847), by Francis Mason, ed. by Henry J. Ripley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Skeptics Who Demanded a Verdict (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, c1989), by Josh McDowell, contrib. by Charles W. Colson (PDF at josh.org)

• A Spiritual Aeneid (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918), by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1854), by L. Silliman Ives (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Eleanor Leslie: A Memoir (London and Leamington: Art and Book Co., 1898), by J. M. Stone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From Union Square to Rome (1938), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)

• For the Love of Mike: The Michael MacIntosh Story (c1984), by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (HTML with commentary at whatsaiththescripture.com)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (sixth edition; Toronto: S. R. Briggs, 1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (15th edition; Chicago: A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (revised and complete edition, with post-mortem appendix; London: Marshall Press, ca. 1899), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Union Square to Rome (1938), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
• Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America (New York et al.: Bloomsbury, c2014), by Anthony Terrance Wiley
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• On Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)

• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (sixth edition; Toronto: S. R. Briggs, 1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (15th edition; Chicago: A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (revised and complete edition, with post-mortem appendix; London: Marshall Press, ca. 1899), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forty Years in the Church of Christ (Chicago et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., 1900), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (HTML with commentary at whatsaiththescripture.com)

• Pastor Chiniquy: An Examination of His "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome", by Sydney F. Smith (HTML at davidmacd.com)

• For the Love of Mike: The Michael MacIntosh Story (c1984), by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking for the Church, by Flavel S. Mines (page images at MOA)

• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (c1955), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• All or Nothing (New York: Sheed and Ward, c1956), by Murray Ballantyne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heaven Was Not Enough (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1955), by Constance Marie O'Hara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe an Einen Protestantischen Freund (in German; St. Paul, MN: Der Wanderer, ca. 1894), by Hugo Klapproth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessions of a Convert, by Robert Hugh Benson (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Gropings After Truth: A Life Journey from New England Congregationalism to the One Catholic and Apostolic Church, by Joshua Huntington (page images at MOA)
• The Young Converts: or, Memoirs of the Three Sisters, Debbie, Helen and Anna Barlow (by "A Lady"; attributed to Smalley; New York: P. O'Shea, 1861), by Julia C. Smalley, ed. by Isaac Thomas Hecker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Report of the Recent Pontifical Appointments in London; To Which is Added a New List of Converts to the Roman Faith, With Explanatory Remarks and Brief Sketches of Character (London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1850) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (eighth edition; London: Burns and Oates, 1881), by John Henry Newman (Gutenberg text)
• Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)

• Statement of the Difficulties Between the Diocese of North Carolina and Dr. Ives, Lately Bishop of Said Diocese (Fayetteville, NC: E. Hall and Son, 1853), by Episcopal Church Diocese of North Carolina (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1854), by L. Silliman Ives (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Spiritual Aeneid (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918), by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), by Ronald G. Watt
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), by Ronald G. Watt
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Theophilus Subrahmanyam: The Story of a Pilgrimage (London: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1922), by Charles H. Monahan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theophilus Subrahmanyam: The Story of a Pilgrimage (London: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1922), by Charles H. Monahan (page images at HathiTrust)

• I Found God in Soviet Russia (New York: St. Martin's Press, c1959), by John Noble and Glenn D. Everett, contrib. by Billy Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty Years in the Church of Christ (Chicago et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., 1900), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Seventh Address to Protestants Throughout the World (1854), by Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Father Clement: A Roman Catholic Story (8th edition; Edinburgh: W. Oliphant and Son, 1834), by Grace Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Seventh Report of the Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society, for the Years 1852 and 1853 (Dublin: G. Drought; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1854), by Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Converted Catholic (partial serial archives)

• The Life and Spiritual Sufferings of That Faithful Servant of Christ Jane Hoskens, a Public Preacher Among the People Called Quakers (1771), by Jane Hoskens, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• Crypto-Jews in the Canaries: A Paper Read Before the Jewish Historical Society of England, in the Mocatta Library, University College, Dec. 12, 1910 (reprinted from the Jewish World; London: C. Straker, ca. 1910), by Lucien Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Jewish Folklore (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983), by Raphael Patai (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

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