Abstract
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 with its values of authenticity, self-expression,
counterculture, and aestheticized lifestyle. Two distinct expressions of
Romanticist culture encountered at the festival are discussed in more
detail: Christian hippiedom and Christian hipsterism.
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 with its values of authenticity, self-expression,
counterculture, and aestheticized lifestyle. Two distinct expressions of
Romanticist culture encountered at the festival are discussed in more
detail: Christian hippiedom and Christian hipsterism.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Practical Matters |
| Volume | 13 |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 22 Dec 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Issue 13 is never publishedKeywords
- festival religion
- Christianity
- Emerging Church Movement
- evangelicalism
- hippiedom
- hipsterism
- Romanticism
- authenticity