Trauma w perspektywie rytuału przejścia i konwersji religijnej

Abstract

The aim of the article is both to determine whether at individual stages of religious conversion any indications of social pathology affecting converts occur and to point out similarities of the aformentioned stages of religious conversion to the rite of passage. For this purpose, the former’s Catholics narratives available on social media, in which they describe their path to conversion to Orthodoxy and Protestantism, were analysed. The research used the digital netnography method as well as qualitative analysis of the collected empirical material, carried out by the Lewis R. Rambo Model and with reference to the Van Gennep’s three-phase rite of passage. The content of converts’ narrative indicates numerous traumatic experiences taking place at individual stages of the process of changing one’s religious denomination.