Froehlich, a young seminary student in Switzerland, experienced a dramatic conversion, causing him to come into conflict with the state-church.

Those against cults explained these sudden and seemingly dramatic religious conversions as due to mind control.

Mr. Nofemela, a former policeman, claims to have undergone a dramatic political conversion.

And it is not the pressure-packed, dramatic third-down conversion.

"Mother Thompson" and others claimed often dramatic conversions by saloon keepers.

The past decade has seen dramatic conversion of this rare and endangered habitat.

In France he experienced a dramatic religious conversion to Christianity and struggled with his Jewish faith.

And then there was that sudden dramatic conversion.

Shortly afterwards, he underwent a dramatic religious conversion.

In the 1970s the anti-cult movement applied mind control theories to explain these sudden and seemingly dramatic religious conversions.