Religious voices in self-narratives
Subtitle: making sense of life in times of transition
By: edited by Marjo Buitelaar and Hetty Zock
Edition: First edition.
Series: Religion and society -- Vol. 54; Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) -- 54.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781614512196; 9781614511700
Subjects: Autobiography; Religiosität; Religious aspects; Religiöse Identität; Religious Psychology; Narration (Rhetoric); Self in literature; Change; Ich-Erzählung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Religious voices in self-narratives / Marjo Buitelaar and Hetty Zock; title: Part I. The narrative construction of religious selves; title: Religious voices in the dialogical self: Towards a conceptual-analytical framework on the basis of Hubert Herman's dialogical self theory / Hetty Zock; title: Religious voices in autobiography and biography: Analyzing life stories using elements of the theories of McAdams and Hermans / Froukje Pitstra; title: Narration, identity, and human development: Cognitive-developmental and discursive approaches to understanding religious voices in self-narratives / James M. Day; title: Religious voices and identity in the life-narratives of young adult Moroccans / Gary S. Gregg; title: Part II. Using religion in times of transition; title: Religious narratives, identity, and well-being in American adolescents / Robyn Fivush; title: Religious traditions as means of innovation: The use of symbolic resources in the life course / Tania Zittoun; title: 'It can't be as beautiful in heaven as it is here': Religious turbulence in Christoph Schlingensief's cancer diary; title: Religion as a mediating agent in a migrant's life story: Multiple I-positions in the self-narratives of a German maidservant who became a Dutch housewife / Barbara Henkes; title: Part III. Religious positioning in diaspora; title: Daughter lost and found: Coming to terms with religious conversion by marriage / Ellis Jonker; title: Religious identity on the peripheries:The dialogical self in a global world / Sunil Bhatia; title: Constructing a Muslim self in a post-migration context: Continuity and discontinuity with parental voices.