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CULTURE AND RELIGION
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 263-278Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14755610903279671
Keywords
belief; meaning; youth; belonging; ethnography
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- ESRC
- AHRC
- ESRC [ES/H000038/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Evidence from a three-year case study suggests that how young people discuss their beliefs reflect where they define and locate legitimate sites of power, meaning and authority. For many young people today, religion is an insufficient source and mode of belief and belonging. The findings discussed here suggest an orientation to family, friends and other social relationships as legitimate and sufficient sites for locating belief, authority and transcendence. I argue that the young people studied do not holds beliefs to be 'true', in that they are propositional creed-like statements. Young people have shifted the meaning of belief to describe affective relationships in which they feel they belong to. Such a shift necessitates a relocation of the transcendent to the everyday and social. That shift is particularly evident as young people discuss how they continue their relationships with the deceased loved ones.
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