Religious Traditions as Means of Innovation: The Use of Symbolic Resources in the Life Course

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction: Religious Voices in Self-Narratives 1
5. Part I: The Narrative Construction of Religious Selves
6. Religious Voices in the Dialogical Self: Towards a Conceptual-Analytical Framework on the Basis of Hubert Hermans’s Dialogical Self Theory 11
7. Religious Voices in Autobiography and Biography: Analyzing Life Stories Using Elements of the Theories of McAdams and Hermans 37
8. Narration, Identity, and Human Development: Cognitive-Developmental and Discursive Approaches to Understanding Religious Voices in Self-Narratives 53
9. Religious Voices and Identity in the Life-Narratives of Young Adult Moroccans 83
10. Part II: Using Religion in Times of Transition
11. Religious Narratives, Identity, and Well-Being in American Adolescents 105
12. Religious Traditions as Means of Innovation: The Use of Symbolic Resources in the Life Course 129
13. ‘It Can’t Be as Beautiful in Heaven as It Is Here’: Religious Turbulence in Christoph Schlingensief’s Cancer Diary 149
14. 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 171
15. Part III: Religious Positioning in Diaspora
16. Daughter Lost and Found: Coming to Terms with Religious Conversion by Marriage 189
17. Religious Identity on the Peripheries: The Dialogical Self in a Global World 215
18. Constructing a Muslim Self in a Post-Migration Context: Continuity and Discontinuity with Parental Voices 241
19. List of authors 275
20. Index 279