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- Title
Being Yourself: Identity and Self-presentation among Youths in Christian Youth Organizations.
- Authors
Zackariasson, Maria
- Abstract
A person’s identity, both social and personal, can be said to be constituted by several different aspects, such as gender, age, ethnicity, class and also religious affiliation. In a country like Sweden, where only a small number of youths are involved in religious organizations, it is, however, not necessarily uncontroversial for youths to present themselves as religiously active. To openly declare your religious commitment, places you in particular collective identities associated with certain beliefs or stereotypes that may challenge norms surrounding how Swedish youths are expected to think, behave and act. This article examines how a number of youths, active in the Christian youth organization of one of the Swedish free churches, present themselves and their religious involvement to friends at school. The results show different strategies used for handling experienced or anticipated reactions to their involvement in a religious organization and the collective identities they may be ascribed because of it.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; IDENTITY (Psychology) in youth; SELF-presentation; CHRISTIAN youth; YOUTH societies &; clubs; RELIGIOUS institutions; FREE churches; RELIGION
- Publication
Young, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
1103-3088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1103308814521625