Faith in the familiar [electronic resource] : religion, spirituality and place in the south of the Netherlands / by Kim Esther Knibbe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knibbe, Kim E.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 143.

Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularization--Netherlands--Limburg--History--20th century.

Secularization.

Secularization--Netherlands--Limburg--History--21st century.

Limburg (Netherlands)--Religion--20th century.

Limburg (Netherlands).

Limburg (Netherlands)--Religion--21st century.

Catholic Church--Netherlands--Limburg--History--20th century.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Netherlands--Limburg--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Faith in the Familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, a country that has moved from strongly pillarized to strongly secularist in the space of fifty years. This book shows how people look back on this, but also how Catholic rituals continue to play a role in the reproduction of place. Furthermore, it shows how forms of spiritualism and new age have become part of a pluralistic local religious landscape, and are used to create new ways of relating to religious authority and to reshape personal relationships. Situating itself within general theories of religious change in Western Europe, it offers a contribution to this discussion from an angle that is often neglected, focusing on locality, rather than on globalization; on what happens to ‘old’ religion, rather than on new religious trends, on popular forms of ‘spirituality’ rather than on middle class and highbrow spirituality.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Kim Esther Knibbe

I Situating the Research / Kim Esther Knibbe

II Moral Discourses in Dutch Catholicism: from Pillarization, via Liberation to Polarization / Kim Esther Knibbe

III Narratives of the Past, Progress and Polarization / Kim Esther Knibbe

IV Religious Authority, Ritual and the Familiar / Kim Esther Knibbe

V Practicing Spirituality / Kim Esther Knibbe

VI Liberal Catholicism: The Burden of the Past and the Problem of the Present / Kim Esther Knibbe

VII Conclusions / Kim Esther Knibbe

Bibliography / Kim Esther Knibbe

Index of Modern Authors / Kim Esther Knibbe

Index of Subjects and Persons / Kim Esther Knibbe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-04-21493-3

OCLC:

851156648

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004214934 DOI