Conversions et altérations dans les sociétés néo-libérales : multiples et en série

Translated title of the contribution: Conversion and alteration in neo-liberal societies : multiple and in series

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Abstract

How to understand conversion within the religious markets of our neo-liberal societies? Is it possible that conversion today in our post-industrial societies have a totally different meaning than when someone converted from paganism to Christianity in the 4th century in Rome, or from Catholicism to Protestantism in the 17th century in Geneva? Since the development of religious pluralism in metropolises and other cosmopolitan locations, can we still today speak about converting from one religion to another? In our consumer societies, should we instead discuss of a conversion from one lifestyle to another? This chapter will address these issues while exploring recent religious changes in our contemporary western societies, including the phenomenon of the standardisation of religion, and will afterwards explore three different religious lifestyles: the hyper-consuming religions, the hypo-consuming religions, and the religious nones. This piece of work will propose at the end to make reference to a conversion when someone changes their religious lifestyle, rather than their religion, and of alteration in series, or multiple, when someone changes their religion but not their religious lifestyle.
Translated title of the contributionConversion and alteration in neo-liberal societies : multiple and in series
Original languageFrench
Title of host publicationLa Conversion et Ses Convertis: Production et Énonciation du Chagement Individual dans le Monde Contemporain
EditorsJean-Philippe Heurtin, Patrick Michel
Place of PublicationFrance
PublisherCentre Maurice Halbwachs
Pages162-172
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9782955814222
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • religion
  • conversion

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