Where the Hippie, Hipster and Hallelujah Meet: Romanticist Culture in Contemporary Dutch Protestant Christianity

This article discusses ethnographic research conducted at a Dutch Christian festival in 2017: Graceland Festival. The festival showed a wide diversity of religious beliefs and backgrounds, ranging from more traditional evangelical and reformed forms of Christianity to anti- religious, holistic, or experimental expressions of faith. The authors provide a sociological analysis to account for the shared-ness encountered at the festival, arguing that it is to be found in terms of cultural orientation rather than religious beliefs. The authors trace this cultural orientation back to Romanticism wit... Mehr ...