Strhan, Anna (2013) Practising the Space Between: Embodying Belief as an Evangelical Anglican Student. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 28 (2). pp. 225-239. ISSN 1353-7903. (doi:10.1080/13537903.2013.783336) (KAR id:42623)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.1080/13537903.2013.783336 |
Abstract
This article explores the formation of British evangelical university students as believers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with a conservative evangelical Anglican congregation in London, I describe how students in this church come to embody a highly cognitive, word-based mode of belief through particular material practices. As they learn to identify themselves as believers, practices of reflexivity and accountability enable them to develop a sense of narrative coherence in their lives that allows them to negotiate tensions that arise from their participation in church and broader social structures. I demonstrate that propositional belief – in contexts where it becomes an identity marker – is bound up with relational practices of belief, such that distinctions between “belief in” and “belief that” are necessarily blurred in the lives of young evangelicals.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/13537903.2013.783336 |
Subjects: |
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion P Language and Literature |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Depositing User: | Neshen Isaeva |
Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2014 21:35 UTC |
Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2022 17:04 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/42623 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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