Conversions are more about the promise of a better life than faith. It is not mandatory or compulsion for every individual. When one read article Approaches to the study of Conversion to Islam in India by Richard M. Eaton from- Religion Movements in South Asia 600-1800 (book) ed. David N. Lorenzen; OUP New Delhi PP 105-127 which explain the thought of conversion in obvious manner but that's not sufficient to speak conversion such this or that. It is a complex social, political, and religious phenomena.
In this article author tries his best to explain the different approaches through which Islam is spread all over the world or do they covert or do have are forced or what it is so much so there is a talk of religious conversion; he put forward some approaches like
In this article author tries his best to explain the different approaches through which Islam is spread all over the world or do they covert or do have are forced or what it is so much so there is a talk of religious conversion; he put forward some approaches like
- Religion of the Sword theory
- Political patronage theory
- Religion of social liberation
These three approaches for him not convincing or inadequate to explain; that people covert to Islam, there is something called
4. Theory of Conversion: Accretion and Reform
