To Leave Your Kindred and Your Father’s House:Contemporary Dutch Christian Border Narratives
In this paper we analyse a collection of essays written by young Dutch people who grew up in the Reformed Liberated Church, a small Christian denomination in the Netherlands. Traditionally, this church is characterised by its inwards nature: members strive to live their lives within the confinements that the church and its institutions stipulate. This has changed over the last few decades and the essays attest to the effects these changes have had on individual lives. We discuss the underlying narrative structure of their accounts and how the authors negotiate different lifestyles and interpre... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Huisman , Q & Moenandar , S 2017 , ' To Leave Your Kindred and Your Father’s House : Contemporary Dutch Christian Border Narratives ' , European Journal of Life Writing , vol. 6 , pp. 174-196 . https://doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.6.228 |
Schlagwörter: | life writing / narrative strategies / border experiences / Reformed Liberated Church |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26671801 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/11370/d105badd-a4ec-4b5a-bbfc-8bf5663219a2 |