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By Johan Roeland
The as soon as taken-for-granted proposal of religion's inevitable decline in Northwestern Europe is more and more contested. rather than steadily disappearing, faith turns out to turn into extra subjective, own and proficient by way of inner most event. This ebook addresses the advantages of this influential realizing of non secular adjustments, qualitative in-depth examine of evangelicalism between Dutch young ones, some of the most well known renditions of Christianity within the Netherlands. Guiding the reader in the course of the settings and groups within which evangelical kids nourish their religion, it significantly discusses the ideological and ethical repertoires that tell their non secular lives, the methods their connection to the sacred is mediated and affirmed, and the results of either one of those for the discussions at the nature and destiny of faith in Northwestern Europe.
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38 youth culture (which includes music, lifestyles, identities, new electronic media and 25 entertainment) on the other. Evangelicalism is popular among youngsters, not only for its alternative popular culture, but for also bringing this into the church. It introduced new styles of 26 worship music (folk, pop, rock, and later on, dance) , places of worship other than the church (coffee bars, pop stages, arenas, stadiums, outdoor festivals), an informal style of participation (‘being yourself’, being relaxed), a multimedia approach (including images, sound, light), contemporary lyrics, entertainment within worship, a new style of preaching, and finally, an embodied, sensational and experiential way of participating.
The genius of the Jesus People was to produce a synthesis of evangelical faith and ‘secular’ popular culture. The pragmatic legitimisation of this synthesis, the purpose of evangelism, would make way for a theological legitimisation: the appreciation of pop culture as a gift from God, which although it could indeed be misused by the devil, in itself, nevertheless, forms part of God’s creation. ‘Why should the devil have all the good music’, sang one of the pioneers of reli-pop, Larry Norman. Thus, he pleaded for Christian pop music as a legitimate religious alternative for those youngsters who both loved the new folk and rock, yet disapproved of what they understood to be its excesses: drugs, overt sexuality and anti-religious sentiments and lyrics.
These are two movements that originated in Southern California, from where they quickly spread all over the USA and the rest of the world, including the Netherlands. As in other European countries, this new -style evangelicalism has strongly influenced the contemporary evangelical movement. In fact, the evangelical movement in the Netherlands is mainly new -style evangelicalism. Miller and Shibley provide a lot of information about new -style evangelicalism in the USA, including information on the backgrounds of the participants (age, gender, class, race, education, economic status), the adoption of the cultural (liberal and therapeutic) values of the baby boom generation, organisational forms, beliefs, forms of authority, and the use of contemporary media.