Umbrellas of Conservative Belief: Explaining the Success of Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands
Dutch society is characterized by a high degree of religious dis-affiliation and non-affiliation and most religious communities are facing hard times in the Netherlands. But there are also exceptions. Against the contemporary current of ongoing secularization, some religious communities seem to thri...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of empirical theology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 30, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-24 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Niederlande
/ Evangelikale Bewegung
/ Wachstum
/ Religiöse Identität
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AE Religionspsychologie KBD Beneluxländer KDG Freikirche |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Evangelicalism
subcultural identity theory
secularization
the Netherlands
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| Zusammenfassung: | Dutch society is characterized by a high degree of religious dis-affiliation and non-affiliation and most religious communities are facing hard times in the Netherlands. But there are also exceptions. Against the contemporary current of ongoing secularization, some religious communities seem to thrive like never before and even attract new members. But why is that? Why do some religious communities succeed in retaining and also attracting new members while others fail? This article focuses on successful evangelical congregations in the Netherlands and tries to account for their relative success. On the basis of a subcultural identity theory, it is argued that the success of evangelical congregations is largely due to the fact that they offer protective umbrellas of conservative belief in an otherwise very secular context. This line of thought is substantiated with empirical findings from a current research project into thriving evangelical congregations in the Netherlands. The article closes with some theoretical reflections on the future of evangelicalism in contemporary Dutch society. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-9256 |
| Enthält: | In: Journal of empirical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341352 |