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Author Knibbe, Kim E.

Title Faith in the familiar : religion, spirituality, and place in the south of the Netherlands / by Kim Esther Knibbe
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)
Series Numen book series ; v. 143
Studies in the history of religions ; v. 143.
Contents Acknowledgments; Chapter One Situating the Research; 1. Introduction; 2. Secularization Theory: Premises and Predictions; 3. Criticisms and Attempts to Redefine the Field; 4. Conceptualizing the Subject Matter; 5. Description of the Research; Chapter Two Moral Discourses in Dutch Catholicism: from Pillarization, via Liberation to Polarization; 1. Introduction; 2. Catholic in Everything: Triumph and Moral Anxiety; 3. From Moralizing to Psychologizing; 4. The Local Church Versus Papal Power Play; 5. Catholicism in Limburg; 6. Concluding Remarks
Chapter Three Narratives of the Past, Progress and Polarization1. Introduction; 2. Representations of the Past; 3. Changes; 4. Polarization; 5. Comparison of Past and Present; 6. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Four Religious Authority, Ritual and the Familiar; 1. Introduction; 2. Rituals Around Death and Dying; 3. Becoming Modern; 4. Re-Signification of the Catholic Tradition; 5. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Five Practicing Spirituality; 1. Introduction; 2. Power and Knowledge; 3. Relationships and the Demands of Individualism; 4. Sceptical Positivism; 5. Spiritual Consumer Culture
6. Concluding RemarksChapter Six Liberal Catholicism: The Burden of the Past and the Problem of the Present; 1. Introduction; 2. The Sacralization of Uncertainty; 3. The Burden of the Past; 4. The Problem of the Present; 5. Gossip and Stereotyping; 6. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Seven Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects and Persons
Summary Faith in the familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, discussing Catholicism and popular forms of New Age. It focuses on the location of religion in local life and how people relate to religious authority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Netherlands -- Limburg -- History -- 20th century
Catholic Church -- Netherlands -- Limburg -- History -- 21st century
Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.
Catholic Church -- History -- 21st century.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Secularization -- Netherlands -- Limburg -- History -- 20th century
Secularization -- Netherlands -- Limburg -- History -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Religion
Secularization
Geloofsleven.
SUBJECT Limburg (Netherlands) -- Religion -- 20th century
Limburg (Netherlands) -- Religion -- 21st century
Subject Netherlands -- Limburg
Zuid-Nederland.
Genre/Form History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004214934
9004214933
1299690955
9781299690950