Narrativization of Religious Conversion Experience in the Environment of Evangelical Protestantism in Ukraine

• Authors: Myronovych, Dmytro

Abstracts

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In the context of this article and in the perspective of interpretational approach we have considered possibilities of sociological analysis of a religious conversion. Based on examples of Evangelical Protestantism communities functioning on the territory of Ukraine the author analyzes peculiarities of building and structuring conversion narratives, a strategy of representation of the religious experience, linguistic means and tools used in this process. A religious conversion is considered as a particular discursive practice or a religious communication related to producing a narrative, which on the one hand reflects changes occurring to a person who passed through a conversion experience, and on the other hand the narrative itself preconditions such changes by means of adaptation of a canonic language of the religious group. Conversion cases considered by the author allow making a conclusion about existence of steady communicative conversion models at the level of Evangelical Protestantism which determinative distinction is reconstruction of the biographical experience in compliance with the “plot” predetermined by a canonic discourse of the considered communities.

Keywords

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religious conversion; conversion narrative; linguistc analyses; Evangelical Protestantism; conversion discourse

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
• Journal: Władza sądzenia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6. O przygodności religii w postsekularnym świecie

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

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Myronovych, Dmytro

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Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv

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Dmytro Myronovych holds academic degrees from the Institute of Sociology NAS of Ukraine and currently works as a Docent (Associate professor) in Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. His current research interests include the study of religious changes in post-communist countries, the sociology of religion, religious conversation

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20725