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surrounding the process of religious disaffiliation. Affiliation with a religious group is referred to as conversion, although there is continuing debate over the referent(s) of this term; but there is no parallel term for disaffiliation. Indeed as the essays in this volume reveal, researchers have employed a variety of terms (dropping out, exiting, dissidentification, leavetaking, defecting, apostasy, disaffiliation, disengagement) to label this process" defection, apostasy and

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