Hervieu Leger: Spiritual shopping
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- Created on: 05-10-14 07:41
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- Hervieu-leger: Spiritual shopping
- Supports the theme of personal choice and believing without belonging.
- There has been "cultural amnesia."
- Definition: A loss of collective memory.
- People have lost the religion that used to be handed down from one generation to the next through family and church.
- Greater equality has undermined the traditional church's power to impose religion from above, so young people no longer inherit a fixed identity.
- While traditional, institutional, religion has declined, religion continues through individual consumerism.
- People have become "spiritual shoppers."
- Religion is now "individualised," (We now have developed 'do it yourself,' beliefs."
- Two types of new religious movements are occuring
- Pilgrims: Follow an individual path in search of "Self discovery."
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- Coverts: Join religious groups that offer a strong sense of belonging which re-creates a sense of community.
- e.g. evangelical movements and ethnic minority churches.
- Pilgrims: Follow an individual path in search of "Self discovery."
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