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[[File:Jan Frans van Geel and Jan Baptist van Hool - The calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, detail of the pulpit in the St. Andrew's Church, Antwerp.jpg|thumb|Jan Frans van Geel and Jan Baptist van Hool – The calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, detail of the pulpit in the St. Andrew's Church, Antwerp|alt=depiction of a life size wooden carving of Jesus calling Peter and Andrew as they climb out of their fishing boat]]
Comparative studies of the early twenty-first century offer the insight that religious conversion provides a new locus of self-definition, moral authority and social identity through the acceptance of religious actions that seem more fitting and true to the recipient.{{sfn|Hefner|2023|p=17}}
Religious conversion into Christianity sometimes came with physical incentives and rewards for new converts, such as the right of residence, access to land, or preferential legal status.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hamed-Troyansky |first=Vladimir|date=2021|title=Becoming Armenian: Religious Conversions in the Late Imperial South Caucasus|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=63|issue=1|pages=242–272 |doi=10.1017/S0010417520000432|doi-access=free}}</ref>
Anthropologist Robert Hefner adds that "Conversion assumes a variety of forms... because it is influenced by a larger interplay of identity, politics and morality".{{sfn|Hefner|2023|p=4}} The message of Truth, a redemptive identity, and acceptance into a social organization whose purpose is the propagation of that message has proven to be a revolutionary force in its own right.{{sfn|Hefner|2023|p=20}}
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