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If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the
religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence
constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two
domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious
life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or
weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’
Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by
examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and
parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need
for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated
fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume
gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and
potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims
and Christians in different parts of the world.
If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the
religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence
constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two
domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious
life - such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or
weakness in faith - outside the domain of religion 'proper.'
Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by
examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and
parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need
for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated
fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume
gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and
potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims
and Christians in different parts of the world.
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.
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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