Description

• Title:
  Narrativization of Religious Conversion Experience in the Environment of Evangelical Protestantism in Ukraine
• Creator:
  Myronovych, Dmytro
• Contributor:
  Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv;
  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.;
  dmyronovych@ucu.edu.ua
• Description:
  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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/pl ;
  Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska
• Date:
  2017.03.03;
  2016
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Katedra Socjologii Polityki i Morlaności, Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny UŁ
• Relation:
  Władza Sądzenia;6
• Subject:
  religious conversion;
  conversion narrative;
  linguistc analyses;
  Evangelical Protestantism;
  conversion discourse
• Identifier:
  Myronovych Dmytro, (2015), Narrativization of religious conversion experience in the environment of Evangelical Protestantism in Ukraine , „Władza Sądzenia”, nr 6, s. 95–114;
  2300-1690;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20725
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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