dc.contributor.author | Moberg, Jessica | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-30T14:58:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-30T14:58:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-01-30 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-91-88348-53-1 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-91-86069-57-5 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1102-9773 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1652-7399 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/30430 | |
dc.description.abstract | The aim of this ethnographic study is to examine how affiliates of the multicultural
charismatic Christian congregation New Life Church practice religiosity within the context
of their personal daily lives, within the framework of the general congregation and in terms of their involvements with other religious organizations in the area of Stockholm.
Beginning with the assumption that the practice of contemporary religiosity and the
development of a religious identity are part of an ongoing process of habituation, the study
describes how practitioners cultivate a form of charismatic piety characterized by certain
embodied orientations, patterns of ritualization and narrative genres. To shed further light
on this process, it draws upon a variety of theories concerning ritualization, embodiment,
performance, narratives and materiality. Apart from this, the study also constitutes an
attempt to explore and measure the impact on the practitioners’ religiosity of late modern
developments such as urbanization, detraditionalization and global mobility as well as
the growing absorption in consumerism, emotional intimacy and the unfolding of the
“authentic” inner self.
While pursuing these ends, the study also calls into question previous assumptions
about charismatic Christianity in Sweden, most particularly the assumption that today’s
practitioners remain inclined to be entirely faithful to one given institution and its system
of beliefs and practices. Indeed this view is directly challenged herein by the finding that
contemporary charismatics are far more inclined to eclectically appropriate elements and
models of thoughts from various contexts of origin as well as to affiliate with and/or visit
multiple Christian institutions.
This dissertation is based upon fieldwork (observation, participation and interviews) in
Stockholm’s charismatic milieu between the years 2009 and 2011 that is particularly focused
on the organization New Life Church. | sv |
dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Dissertations published by the Department of Literature, | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg 30 | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations 74 | sv |
dc.subject | Charismatic Christianity, Pentecostalism, habituation, learning religion, mobility, ritualization, | sv |
dc.subject | ritual appropriation, religious consumption, commodification, materiality, embodiment, narrative, late modernity, globalization, inward turn, subjective turn, authenticity, intimacy, prayer, worship, music, testimony, urban religion, religious eclecticism. | sv |
dc.title | Piety, Intimacy and Mobility: A Case Study of Charismatic Christianity in Present-Day Stockholm | sv |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.type.svep | Doctoral thesis | eng |
dc.type.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | sv |
dc.gup.origin | Göteborgs universitet. Humanistiska fakulteten | swe |
dc.gup.origin | University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Arts | eng |
dc.gup.department | Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion ; Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion | sv |
dc.gup.defenceplace | Fredagen den 15 februari 2013, kl. 13.00, MA624, Södertörns högskola, Alfred Nobels allé. | sv |
dc.gup.defencedate | 2013-02-15 | |
dc.gup.dissdb-fakultet | HF | |