Strhan, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-0875-1197 (2013) Practising the space between:Embodying belief as an evangelical anglican student. Journal of Contemporary Religion. pp. 225-239. ISSN 1469-9419
Abstract
This article explores the formation of British evangelical university students as believers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with a conservative evangelical Anglican congregation in London, I describe how students in this church come to embody a highly cognitive, word-based mode of belief through particular material practices. As they learn to identify themselves as believers, practices of reflexivity and accountability enable them to develop a sense of narrative coherence in their lives that allows them to negotiate tensions that arise from their participation in church and from broader social structures. I demonstrate that propositional belief-in contexts where it becomes an identity marker-is bound up with relational practices of belief, so that distinctions between belief in and belief that are necessarily blurred in the lives of young evangelicals.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2019 08:10 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:20 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2013.783336 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13537903.2013.783336 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147820 |
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