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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">TBB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Tiltai</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-3137</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-3137</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">782-2886-1-PB</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/tbb.v66i1.782</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>RELIGINIO ATSIVERTIMO BRUOŽAI IR PRASMĖ</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Juškienė</surname>
            <given-names>Vaineta</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:vainetajusk@yahoo.com">vainetajusk@yahoo.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Piktuižytė</surname>
            <given-names>Iveta</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>66</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>121</fpage>
      <lpage>136</lpage>
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        <p>Present social and personal spiritual crises make it necessary to actualize the significance of  a personal return to God. The Church invites to evaluate again the importance of religious conversion in preventing various social and personal spiritual pathologies. In this context, discussion and specification of a multidimensional phenomenon of religious conversion is problematic. Following the objectives of the Church to deepen the faith and renew evangelisation, this research aims to answer the following scientific questions: what are the typical features of a religious conversion? What are the factors that can influence the dynamics of this process? What are the changes a personal religious conversion may inspire? This article presents a theoretical analysis of a phenomenon of conversion. The research has shown that personal transformation and existential fulfillment of one’s personal life is an essential meaning of a religious conversion. Religion performs a positive psychotherapeutic function, it gives a meaning to a human existence and contributes to a personal maturity, also leads to a wholesome relationship with God where the meaning of human existence is completely fulfilled. Religious conversion may be considered as one of the fundamental elements of a spiritual health within the context of the present life challenges.</p>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Religion</kwd>
        <kwd>Conversion</kwd>
        <kwd>Faith</kwd>
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