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Are You Born Again?

Name: Are You Born Again?
Brand: Scholars' Press
SKU: 9783639709711
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The Conversion Experience of Young Adult Ugandans

Autor: Luke Ssemakula

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Editura: Scholars' Press

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This study investigates why and how young adult Ugandans who were born and raised Catholic or Anglic...

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Autor

Luke Ssemakula

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2014

Pagini

288

EAN

9783639709711

ISBN

3639709713

Enbook ID

07093658

Editura

Scholars' Press

Greutate

426

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 17

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This study investigates why and how young adult Ugandans who were born and raised Catholic or Anglican are converting to Born Again Christianity in remarkable numbers. The study explores the social, historical, religious, and cultural contexts out of which these conversions arise, the nature of the conversion experience itself, and it compares the converts, three quarters of whom are ex-Catholics, with the Catholics against whose beliefs and rituals Ugandan converts normally define themselves. Born Again Christianity is a subculture whose members share a similar way of life and construct a distinct collective identity through engagement and tension with its rival groups. The factors that draw young Ugandans to Born Again Christianity are multiple and complex. My central argument is that Born Again Christianity provides young Ugandans tools to create distinction from but also significant engagement and tension with Roman Catholicism and mainstream society, while also making some concessions. It offers them something new and different, empowers them to feel, act and believe differently, within an effective support system that satisfies their need for meaning and belonging.