Faith in the Familiar by BY KIM ESTHER KNIBBE.. ISBN 13: 9789004250529

BRILL, 2013-06-20. Hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Hardcover with printed covers, no jacket. As new, showing very light shelfwear. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked.

Leiden: Brill, 2013. First edition. Octavo. viii, (2), 183, (3)pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). Faith in the familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, discussing Catholicism and popular forms of New Age. It focuses on the location of religion in local life and how people relate to religious authority. (OCLC) Faith in the Familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, a country that has moved from strongly pillarized to strongly secularist in the space of fifty years. This book shows how people look back on this, but also how Catholic rituals continue to play a role in the reproduction of place. Furthermore, it shows how forms of spiritualism and new age have become part of a pluralistic local religious landscape, and are used to create new ways of relating to religious authority and to… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.