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Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe - Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands (Paperback)
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Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe - Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands (Paperback)
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Engaging with debates about lived religion, pluralism, and
secularism, this book presents an ethnographic study of committed
young Muslims and Christians in the predominantly secular context
of the Netherlands. Daan Beekers breaks with conventional
frameworks that keep these groups apart by highlighting the common
ground between revivalist-minded Protestant Christians and Sunni
Muslims. Based on in-depth fieldwork, Young Muslims and Christians
in a Secular Europe shows that these young adults embark on
reflexive projects of cultivating personal faith that are rife with
struggles, setbacks, and doubts. Beekers argues that this shared
precarious condition of everyday religious pursuits is shaped by
young believers' active participation in today's high capitalist
and largely secular society where they encounter other modes of
imagining and living in the world. Yet he reveals that this close
engagement with secular culture also fosters a reinvigorated
religious commitment that demands constant care and nourishment.
Written in a clear and accessible style, this book reaches beyond
longstanding divisions in the study of religion in Europe. It both
provides rich insights into everyday religious lives and disrupts
persistent binary oppositions between categories such as minorities
and majorities, migrants and natives, and Islam and the West.
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