Selfation
Title
Selfation
Subtitle
Dutch Evangelical Youth Between Subjectivization and Subjection
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€ 47,95 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789085550198
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Paperback
Number of pages
242
Language
English
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
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Contents - 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - 12 CH. 1: SETTING THE STAGE - 16 CH. 2: THE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS - 24 CH. 3: ON SUBJECTIVIZATION - 44 CH. 4: STUDYING RELIGIOUS SUBJECTIVIZATION - 68 CH. 5: YOUNGSTERS AND THE RELIGIOUS ORGANISATION - 96 CH. 6: OBJECTIFYING GOD: ON SIGNIFICATION (I) - 134 CH. 7: THE EVANGELICAL PRACTICE OF RELIGIOUS MEDIATION: ON SIGNIFICATION (II) - 160 CH. 8: THE EVANGELICAL MORAL ETHOS - 178 CH. 9: SELFATION: CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION - 202 REFERENCES - 216 APPENDICES - 228 NEDERLANDSE SAMENVATTING - 234

Johan Roeland

Selfation

Dutch Evangelical Youth Between Subjectivization and Subjection

The once taken-for-granted notion of religion’s inevitable decline in Northwestern Europe is increasingly contested. Instead of gradually disappearing, religion seems to become more subjective, personal and informed by private experience. This book addresses the merits of this influential understanding of religious changes, qualitative in-depth study of evangelicalism among Dutch youngsters, one of the most popular renditions of Christianity in the Netherlands. Guiding the reader through the settings and communities in which evangelical youngsters nourish their faith, it critically discusses the ideological and moral repertoires that inform their religious lives, the ways their connection to the sacred is mediated and affirmed, and the implications of both of these for the discussions on the nature and fate of religion in Northwestern Europe.
Author

Johan Roeland

Johan Roeland (1977) obtained his masters degree in Theology. He worked as a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Faculty of Social Sciences) of VU University Amsterdam. He is currently affiliated to the Department of Sociology of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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