Faith in the familiar : religion, spirituality, and place in the south of the Netherlands / by Kim Esther Knibbe.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Faith in the familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, discussing Catholicism and popular forms of New Age. It focuses on the location of religion in local life and how people relate to religious authority.

Acknowledgments; Chapter One Situating the Research; 1. Introduction; 2. Secularization Theory: Premises and Predictions; 3. Criticisms and Attempts to Redefine the Field; 4. Conceptualizing the Subject Matter; 5. Description of the Research; Chapter Two Moral Discourses in Dutch Catholicism: from Pillarization, via Liberation to Polarization; 1. Introduction; 2. Catholic in Everything: Triumph and Moral Anxiety; 3. From Moralizing to Psychologizing; 4. The Local Church Versus Papal Power Play; 5. Catholicism in Limburg; 6. Concluding Remarks.

Chapter Three Narratives of the Past, Progress and Polarization1. Introduction; 2. Representations of the Past; 3. Changes; 4. Polarization; 5. Comparison of Past and Present; 6. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Four Religious Authority, Ritual and the Familiar; 1. Introduction; 2. Rituals Around Death and Dying; 3. Becoming Modern; 4. Re-Signification of the Catholic Tradition; 5. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Five Practicing Spirituality; 1. Introduction; 2. Power and Knowledge; 3. Relationships and the Demands of Individualism; 4. Sceptical Positivism; 5. Spiritual Consumer Culture.

6. Concluding RemarksChapter Six Liberal Catholicism: The Burden of the Past and the Problem of the Present; 1. Introduction; 2. The Sacralization of Uncertainty; 3. The Burden of the Past; 4. The Problem of the Present; 5. Gossip and Stereotyping; 6. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Seven Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects and Persons.

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