Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity
The Netherlands has undergone a radical religious transformation through secularization, individualization and migration. Expressions of Christian belief are no longer strictly defined by the Church and hybrid forms of religiosity incorporating other religions have emerged. After a brief sketch of D...
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| description | The Netherlands has undergone a radical religious transformation through secularization, individualization and migration. Expressions of Christian belief are no longer strictly defined by the Church and hybrid forms of religiosity incorporating other religions have emerged. After a brief sketch of Dutch religious plurality, the author focuses on interviews with ‘flexible believers’, people who combine elements from different religious traditions and worldviews. Through interviews, she discovers a number of characteristics of these multiple religious believers (MRB) - interviewees - such as ritual praxis, identity-making processes and belonging - and reflects on their impact for the wider picture of religiosity in today‘s post-Christian Dutch network society. She concludes that hybrid forms of lived religion like mrb, present a challenge to traditional concepts of religious identity and belonging. They require a paradigm shift from an ‘either/or’ to a relational ‘as well as’ approach within a rhizomatic network of meaning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-311b208bb5554bd7b36cdcd16edcc05b2022-12-21T20:16:57ZengDe GruyterOpen Theology2300-65792017-01-013134535910.1515/opth-2017-0027opth-2017-0027Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious MultiplicityKalsky Manuela0Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NetherlandsThe Netherlands has undergone a radical religious transformation through secularization, individualization and migration. Expressions of Christian belief are no longer strictly defined by the Church and hybrid forms of religiosity incorporating other religions have emerged. After a brief sketch of Dutch religious plurality, the author focuses on interviews with ‘flexible believers’, people who combine elements from different religious traditions and worldviews. Through interviews, she discovers a number of characteristics of these multiple religious believers (MRB) - interviewees - such as ritual praxis, identity-making processes and belonging - and reflects on their impact for the wider picture of religiosity in today‘s post-Christian Dutch network society. She concludes that hybrid forms of lived religion like mrb, present a challenge to traditional concepts of religious identity and belonging. They require a paradigm shift from an ‘either/or’ to a relational ‘as well as’ approach within a rhizomatic network of meaning.https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2017-0027multiple religious belonginghybrid religiosityreligious transformationtransreligious diversitylived religionrhizomatic thinking |
| spellingShingle | Kalsky Manuela Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity Open Theology multiple religious belonging hybrid religiosity religious transformation transreligious diversity lived religion rhizomatic thinking |
| title | Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity |
| title_full | Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity |
| title_fullStr | Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity |
| title_short | Flexible Believers in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Shift toward Transreligious Multiplicity |
| title_sort | flexible believers in the netherlands a paradigm shift toward transreligious multiplicity |
| topic | multiple religious belonging hybrid religiosity religious transformation transreligious diversity lived religion rhizomatic thinking |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2017-0027 |
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