TY - JOUR TI - Konwersje na chrześcijaństwo w przedrewolucyjnym Iranie AU - Rzepka, Marcin TI - Konwersje na chrześcijaństwo w przedrewolucyjnym Iranie AB - Conversions to Christianity in Pre-revolutionary Iran Conversions to Christianity in Iran before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, being an evident result of the missionary activity conducted in this area from the 19th century, could be studied as part of the history of Christianity among Iranians. Conversions to Christianity, rather rare in the period analysed, are connected to the social and political changes in the whole country. There are two moments which seem to have given the best opportunity for spreading Christianity among Iranian people: 1) the political transformation starting in the 1920s – the end of the Qajar dynasty and the beginning of the reign of Reza Pahlavi, before he started to implement his national policy and 2) the 1960s – the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Among all Christian churches existing in Iran at that time, only the Anglican Church was focused mainly on proselytising and turning Iranian Muslims, Jews or Zoroastrians to the Christian faith. However, the statistics indicate that, in spite of such activity, the total number of converts prior to the revolution did not exceed 1000. VL - 2013 IS - Tom 46, Numer 2 PY - 2013 SN - 0137-2432 C1 - 2084-4077 SP - 79 EP - 94 DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.13.007.1410 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-religiologica/artykul/konwersje-na-chrzescijanstwo-w-przedrewolucyjnym-iranie KW - Iran KW - konwersje KW - chrześcijaństwo KW - islam KW - protestantyzm KW - Kościół anglikański ; Iran KW - conversions KW - Christianity KW - Islam KW - Protestantism KW - Anglican Church