Definition of "deconversion" [deconversion]

• The loss of faith in a given religion and return to a previously held religion or non-religion (typically atheism, agnosticism, or rationalism). (noun)

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• "He finds it ironic that the person he stood the most to lose through his deconversion was the one he came out to at the onset and relied on for support over the past five years."
• "It is possible that Hitler had by 1941 experienced some kind of deconversion or disillusionment with Christianity."
• "To add an autobiographical complexity: I was raised in a devout Mormon family in Utah but experienced a "deconversion" of sorts in 1989 when I was an Ezra Taft Benson Scholar at Brigham Young University."