RT Book
T1 Young Muslims and Christians in a secular Europe: pursuing religious commitment in the Netherlands
A1 Beekers, Daan
LA English
PP London England
PB Bloomsbury Academic
YR 2021
ED First edition
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1751747131
AB 1. Introduction: a comparative anthropology of religious commitment -- 2. Becoming committed -- 3. Authentic submission and moral self-scrutiny -- 4. Doubt, community, and conviction -- 5. Fitting God in -- 6. Distraction, habituation, and closeness to God -- 7. Conclusion.
AB "Ethnographic study of committed young Muslims and Christians in the predominantly secular context of the Netherlands. Daan Beekers breaks with conventional frameworks that keep these groups apart by highlighting the common ground between revivalist-minded Protestant Christians and Sunni Muslims. Based on in-depth fieldwork, Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe shows that these young adults embark on reflexive projects of cultivating personal faith that are rife with struggles, setbacks, and doubts. Beekers argues that this shared precarious condition of everyday religious pursuits is shaped by young believers' active participation in today's high capitalist and largely secular society where they encounter other modes of imagining and living in the world. Yet he reveals that this close engagement with secular culture also fosters a reinvigorated religious commitment that demands constant care and nourishment.  Written in a clear and accessible style, this book reaches beyond longstanding divisions in the study of religion in Europe. It both provides rich insights into everyday religious lives and disrupts persistent binary oppositions between categories such as minorities and majorities, migrants and natives, and Islam and the West."--
OP 240
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP172
SN 978-1-350-12734-0
SN 978-1-350-12733-3
SN 978-1-350-19931-6
SN 978-1-350-12731-9
K1 Muslim youth : Netherlands : Social conditions
K1 Protestant youth : Netherlands : Social conditions
K1 Christianity and other religions : Islam
K1 Islam : Relations : Christianity
K1 Secularism : Netherlands
K1 Musim youth : Religious life : Netherlands
K1 Christian youth : Religious life
K1 Electronic books
K1 Christian life & practice
DO 10.5040/9781350127340