Conservative Religion and Mainstream Culture Opposition, Negotiation, and Adaptation

This book highlights tensions and negotiating processes between modern society and conservative religious groups. Conservative religion and society have co-existed for at least a century in an increasingly pluralist society. Still, the right to religious freedom and tolerance clashes with certain ex...

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Other Authors: Gelfgren, Stefan (Editor), Lindmark, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; Stefan Gelfgren & Daniel Lindmark
  • Part 1. Conservative Religion Confronting the Culture
  • 2. Mapping Conservative Religion: A Bible Belt in Northern Sweden; Stefan Gelfgren
  • 3. Conservative Laestadianism the in Municipal Politics of in Northern Finland; Tapio Nykänen & Tiina Harjumaa
  • 4. Pentecostalism and Secular Youth Culture: Translatability, Ambiguity and Instability; Ibrahim Abraham
  • 5. Interpreting Popular Christian Music from Theological and Musicological Perspectives: The Example of Damaris Joy; Reinhard Kopanski, Veronika Albrecht-Birkner, Florian Heesch & Ruthild Stöhr
  • Part 2. Conservative Religion, Schooling, and Public Life
  • 6. Religious Pluralisation and Secularisation: Opposites or Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Wolfram Weisse. - 7. Education Hesitancy in the Ostrobothnian Bible Belt?; Jakob Dahlbacka & Gerd Snellman
  • 8. Mainstream Israeli Teenagers Conceptions of Ultra-Orthodox Jews: Humanism, Criticism and Resentfulness; Ori Katzin
  • Part 3. Conservative Religion and Media
  • 9. Defending the Truth of the Bible: Two Apologetic Periodicals in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden; Daniel Lindmark & Erik J. Anderson
  • 10. Combating Caustic Communication with Truth and Beauty: Christianity Today, Beautiful Orthodoxy, and US-Culture; Anja-Maria Bassimir
  • 11. Laestadianism in the News: Media and Conservative Religion in a Finnish Case; Andreas Häger