Sentence examples for intellectual conversion from inspiring English sources

It was a purely intellectual conversion.

Its own internal evolution, and the intellectual conversion of its own founder, Abdullah Ocalan, held in a Turkish island prison since 1999, have led it to entirely change its aims and tactics.

Now, with innocent blood on his hands, he suffered a mental collapse from which he never fully recovered, and he underwent an intellectual conversion that caused him to turn his back on his former friends.

The "hundred flowers" line explicitly encouraged "free-ranging" discussion and inquiry, with the explicit assumption that this would prove the superiority of Marxism-Leninism and speed the conversion of intellectuals to communism.

Most are put off by the length and intellectual demands of the halachic conversion process (it doesn't help that finished conversions are sometimes annulled for violations of Sabbath or other religious rules).

But such contours in Vivekananda's personality and intellectual life got flattened during his conversion into a laminated image: that of righteous Hindu nationalist avenger of the Muslim and colonial conquests of India, ambivalent about nothing at all.

What is striking about her re-conversion is the absence of intellectual wrestling with the question of God's existence or any other doctrinal matter.

Have years of appeasement -- intellectual and political -- led to a silent conversion?

"The important story is that there has never been so much discussion on issues of conversion, apostasy and not only among intellectuals," Mr. Bahgat said.

The repeated invocation of India and Indian themes hints at something deeper than private conversion — the likelihood of discovering a new intellectual and spiritual resource.

But those who know him say the conversion was sincere, born of both an intellectual and a spiritual attraction to the church of his wife.