Synd og skam i autentisitetens tidsalder

Graff-Kallevåg, Kristin; Kaufman, Tone Stangeland

doi:10.18261/issn.1504-3002-2021-03-08

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In a recent qualitative study conducted in Norway, we explored how young people attending two youth ministries in the Church of Norway reflected on sin, guilt, and shame related to existential dilemmas 4 in their own lives (Graff-Kallevåg & Kaufman, 2021). 5 The young research participants certainly spoke of "existential dilemmas" far more in terms of shame than in terms of sin.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When confessing sin feels good

Graff-Kallevåg

Kaufman

2023

Dialog

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper draws on a qualitative study of how young people engaged in two youth ministries in the Church of Norway reflect on sin and shame in relation to their existential dilemmas . The authors analyze this practice through the lens of Hartmut Rosa's concept of resonance, arguing that there is consonance between how young people in the study express shame and the Lutheran understanding of sin as being curved in on oneself. Both sin and shame prevent the subject from being open to the world, thus constituting resistance to resonance. Yet, the practice of confessing sin may be a remedy to this closing in on oneself, as confession affords a resonant space, countering feelings of existential inadequacy caused by both sin and shame.Bringing the concept of vulnerability into the discussion, the paper further argues that confessing sin may prove healing and liberating also for experiences of shame as long as it does not violate the subject's ability to speak with her own voice or involve harmful god‐images or harmful power dynamics.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%