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Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands

Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands

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ISBN10: 1350199311
ISBN13: 9781350199316
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 28 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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

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