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The 16 pages that link to Apostasy, each with the reason it gives.

• Religious conversionCompared with: It describes departure from a religion, which may accompany conversion but does not require another faith.

• ExcommunicationCompared with: It may be grounds for discipline, but it describes a person’s stance rather than a church-imposed penalty.

• Religious identityCompared with: Apostasy marks an explicit break that may alter or contest a person's religious identity.

• TheocracyRelated: When religious identity has legal force, leaving the faith can carry political consequences.

• BlasphemyCompared with: Apostasy concerns leaving a faith, though accusations and penalties can overlap with blasphemy.

• HeresyCompared with: Heresy challenges doctrine from within a tradition; apostasy leaves or renounces the faith.

• Forced conversionCompared with: Apostasy concerns leaving a faith, while forced conversion imposes another identity.

• Blasphemy lawCompared with: Apostasy laws punish leaving a faith; blasphemy laws punish alleged insults to sacred matters.

• Book of JudgesRelated: The stories repeatedly begin with Israel abandoning its worship of God.

• Epistle to the HebrewsRelated: Its severe warning passages address the danger of abandoning the community’s confession.

• First VisionRelated: Smith’s later account portrays the vision as revealing that existing churches had departed from divine truth.

• Second Epistle to the ThessaloniansRelated: The letter places a rebellion before the day of the Lord.

• Shūsaku EndōRelated: Silence makes apostasy a painful moral act rather than a simple measure of belief.

• Crypto-ChristianityCompared with: Public conversion may resemble apostasy while private belief continues.

• Epistle of JudeRelated: Jude warns that some have turned away from the faith entrusted to the community.

• Criticism of IslamRelated: Debates over penalties for leaving Islam raise questions about religious liberty and law.