Famous Religious Conversions Christopher Isherwood

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About the famous religious convert Christopher Isherwood what religion she converted from and to and why.

RENOWNED RELIGIOUS CONVERTS

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, British, 1904-.

Playwright and fiction writer. Follower of Swami Prabhavananda, Isherwood translated the Bhagavad-Gita and other Hindu writings from Sanskrit.

From: Anglicanism.

To: Hinduism.

Why: Isherwood rejected the Anglicanism of his birth and in W.W. II became a pacifist and served alternative service with the Quakers. Influenced by Aldous Huxley, he became a convert to the Hindu philosophy of the Vedanta Society.


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