Atheism

Szocik, Konrad; Eyghen, Hans Van

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63516-9_10

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“…In the formative phase of adolescence, young believers decide whether, and if yes, how they want to stay affiliated with a religious tradition. Going beyond that which research has found thus far, the framework we introduce highlights multiple processes through which young believers develop their own perspective on and approach to their religious tradition and practice while also taking societal forces and discourses into consideration (Blume, 2010; Luckmann, 1967; Szocik and Van Eyghen, 2021). This adaption of religion usually involves focusing on certain religious interpretations and practices while disregarding others.…”

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“… 1. The terms adapt and adaption are also used in evolutionary biology (Szocik and Van Eyghen, 2021) and the subfield within religious studies that builds on these insights to understand the development of religion in the history of humankind (Blume, 2010). While our findings are not in conflict with these specific debates, we do not aim to contribute to this strand of research.…”

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Adapting my religion: How young believers negotiate religious belonging

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MATTES,

HASELBACHER

et al. 2024

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Scholarship on religious belonging has overwhelmingly labelled believers’ religion in very broad and superficial terms, presuming that individual practices and beliefs are congruent with religious doctrines and official discourses. By splitting up religious socialisation into two crucial phases, the adoption and the adaption of religion, this article offers a more procedural understanding to investigating how young believers develop their own sense of religious belonging. Based on biographical narrative interviews with Viennese believers (aged 16–25) from 7 religious groups, we observe that the adoption of a certain religion is primarily bound to family ties. The adaption phase serves to develop personal approaches towards religion based on two major rationales: adapting one’s own religiosity by engaging with religious doctrine and community itself, and negotiating religion within society. We argue that adaption is closely tied to social relations within and across religions and to (secular) society at large.

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