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Religious backsliding

Name(s):

Falling from grace

Reversion to sin

Nature

Reversion to sin and worldly ways, returning to old habits after a period of reform, or falling from grace after experiencing religious conversion. For those experiencing conversion, the ideal and the past habitual life are brought into definite conflict. There is a sharp cleavage between the higher and the lower selves. An ideal is recognized which is more difficult to attain because of its incongruity with the old life which subsequently tends to reassert its demands.

Incidence

Of special significance in those religions emphasizing the conversion experience as a turning point in an individual's development.

Broader

Decline

Irreligiousness

Narrower

Apostasy

Religious non-practitioners

Aggravates

Loss of sense of sin

Aggravated by

Loss of the sense of God

Inappropriate personal habits

Strategy(ies)

Convincing concerning sin

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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