Zahra Feizi,[1] Allah Karam Karamipour[2], Hasan Mohaddesi Kilvaei[3]

Abstract

This article has been done with a qualitative methodological approach and with the method of narrative analysis. The participant sample is acute religious conversion in Tehran who have been selected by purposive sampling by a snowball method. In this article, narrative interviews were conducted with 20 of these modifiers, 19 of whom provided accurate information about their conversion, and the research was saturated with this number. The findings showed that in the set of causes, the causes of socio-political, social-psychological, social-relationship were the most common causes of religious conversion among modifiers. This study showed that the stages of conversion in Tehran are different from what is stated in the theories of the scholars such as Rambo, Lofland, and Stark. The bottom line is that socio-political instability and insecurity and psychological turmoil are the most important explanatory causes for religious conversion.

Keyword: Religious conversion, Psychological insecurity, Socio-political instability