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Marital conversion refers to the concept of religious conversion
Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a new religion identity, or a change from one religious identity to another. This typically entails the sincere avowal of a new belief system, but may also present itself in other ways, such as adoption into an identity group or spiritual lineage....
 upon marriage
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
, either as a conciliatory act, or a mandated requirement according to a particular religious belief. Endogamous
Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of Marriage within a group , rejecting others based solely on culture as being unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships....
 religious cultures may have certain opposition to interfaith marriage and ethnic assimilation, and may assert prohibitions
Apostasy

Apostasy is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociology without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, one's former religion....
 against the conversion ("marrying out") of one their own claimed adherents. Conversely, they may require the marital conversion of those who wish to marry one of their adherents.

m frowns upon marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women, with a provision allowing the marriage of a Muslim man to a Jewish or Christian woman (or women).






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Marital conversion refers to the concept of religious conversion
Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a new religion identity, or a change from one religious identity to another. This typically entails the sincere avowal of a new belief system, but may also present itself in other ways, such as adoption into an identity group or spiritual lineage....
 upon marriage
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
, either as a conciliatory act, or a mandated requirement according to a particular religious belief. Endogamous
Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of Marriage within a group , rejecting others based solely on culture as being unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships....
 religious cultures may have certain opposition to interfaith marriage and ethnic assimilation, and may assert prohibitions
Apostasy

Apostasy is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociology without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, one's former religion....
 against the conversion ("marrying out") of one their own claimed adherents. Conversely, they may require the marital conversion of those who wish to marry one of their adherents.

Islam

Islam frowns upon marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women, with a provision allowing the marriage of a Muslim man to a Jewish or Christian woman (or women). This is provided that the children from that marriage be raised as "believers," a common Islamic term for Muslims. The Qur'anic verses generally quoted are:
On marriage to Jews and Christians ("People of the Book
People of the Book

In Islam, the People of the Book are non-Muslim peoples who, according to the Qur'an, received scriptures which were revelation to them by God before the time of Muhammad, most notably Christians and Jews....
"):


Muslim women are expressly forbidden
Haram

The Arabic term has a meaning of "sanctuary" or "holy site" in Islam....
 to marry a non-Muslim man, and conversion to another religion, considered to be apostasy
Apostasy

Apostasy is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociology without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, one's former religion....
, is, according to Sharia
Sharia

Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Fiqh and for Muslims living outside the domain....
 punishable by death:

Judaism


Jewish views on religious conversion due to intermarriage are largely in opposition to such marriage, even if such marriages are tolerated
Toleration

Toleration and tolerance are terms used in sociology, culture and religion contexts to describe attitudes which are "...
. If a non-Jew wishes to become a Jew —in the sense that they practice Judaism and thus are accepted as a Jew
Who is a Jew?

"Who is a Jew?" is a basic question about Jewish identity. The question has gained particular prominence in connection with several high-profile legal cases in Israel since the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel in 1948....
 — they are, depending on the Jewish religious tradition, typically welcome. On the other hand, if a Jew desires to leave Judaism, they are regarded as apostates, or "assimilators
Jewish assimilation

Jewish Assimilation encompasses the outward social and genetic process, as well as the internal religious process of assimilation and integration of the previously segregated Jewish people into predominantly non-Jewish Europe and later, the wider world....
" into a non-Jewish
Goy

is a transliterated Hebrew language word which translates as "nation" or "person". Historically and up to modern times it is a synonym for Gentile or non-Jew....
 religion or culture. Non-Jewish cultures, tend to be regarded and portrayed as negative; being idolatrous
Idolatry

Idolatry is usually defined as worship of any cult image, idea, or Object , as opposed to the worship of a monotheistic God. It is considered a major sin in the Abrahamic religions whereas in religions where such activity is not considered as sin, the term "idolatry" itself is absent....
, or rejecting of God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 (as Jews conceive God
God in Judaism

The Conception of God in Judaism is monotheistic. The God of Israel was known by two principal names in the Bible. One is YHWH, known as the Tetragrammaton....
).

Some Jewish leaders have called Jewish intermarriage a "Silent Holocaust
Silent Holocaust

The silent holocaust is a phrase that is used to refer to several unrelated events:* Abortion, among some involved in pro-life activism. One group has even named itself Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust....
," particularly in 20th-21st century America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 where as many as 47% of American Jews have intermarried with non-Jews in past two decades. Such cultural
Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is when an individual or individuals adopts some or all aspects of a dominant culture . Cultural assimilation is a process of socialization....
 and religious assimilation
Religious assimilation

In religion, assimilation refers to the passive or active inclusion of persons or aspects of another religion as members or elements within a particular faith or belief system....
 is said to represent a slow destruction of the Jewish people. Others have expressed a different view, accepting or tolerating such marriages, instead focusing their attention towards the concept that the children of a Jewish parent be raised Jewish, with some sense of their identity rooted in Judaism and in Jewish culture.

Christianity


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