The report, entitled Narratives Of Conversion To Islam In Britain: Male Perspectives, said Muslim converts were a "minority within a minority" and called for specialist groups to be created to help them cope with the feelings of rejection embracing Islam could cause.
So they are turning to a narrative of forced conversion to fight back".
The age difference is stark, but beyond this, the narrative of lesbian conversion is there in all its problematic glory, throwing up questions about sexual identity and coercion.
And evangelical Protestants aren't the only Christians addicted to the narrative of the deathbed conversion.
It's delightful to find (never concoct!) such moments, in which a chance encounter or a sudden revelation changes an ordinary life into the kind of life that people get paid to write books about, since those moments enable the biographer to construct the sort of conversion narrative, or Dick Whittington before-and-after story, that readers find familiar and take pleasure in.
In a hallmark of conversion narratives, the original mania reproduces itself as a mirror image: in the old days, hyperbolically anxious; in the new, hyperbolically anxious to enumerate the old anxiety.
Deen is my opposite in many ways, and yet I found in his memoir a story not entirely unlike my own — a conversion narrative of sorts, with secular humanism as the destination rather than Judaism.
It not only provides sound and imagery, but a nonlinear/linear narrative of an erotically-charged conversion into a new archetype.
My seminar, "Conversion Narratives," looks at the experience of conversion from historical, sociological and anthropological perspectives.
In one of the artist's rare narrative scenes, "The Conversion of Saul," a big, solid butter-yellow beam of divine radiance drops from the sky like a stage prop.
