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Everyday Evangelicals : Life in a Religious Subculture after the Belfast Agreement

Everyday Evangelicals : Life in a Religious Subculture after the Belfast Agreement. A New Perspective on Northern Irish Evangelicalism. Everyday Evangelicals. Gladys Ganiel, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin ( gganiel@tcd.ie )

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Everyday Evangelicals : Life in a Religious Subculture after the Belfast Agreement

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  1. Everyday Evangelicals:Life in a Religious Subculture after the Belfast Agreement A New Perspective on Northern Irish Evangelicalism

  2. Everyday Evangelicals Gladys Ganiel, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin (gganiel@tcd.ie) Claire Mitchell, Queen’s University Belfast, (claire.mitchell@qub.ac.uk)

  3. Religion & the NI Conflict Religion as an ethnic marker But, evangelicalism as especially important for Protestant identity

  4. What is Evangelicalism? • Evangelicals • 25 – 30 per cent of the Protestant population • Emerged as a movement in 18th century revivals • What do evangelicals believe? • Must be ‘born again’ • Bible is the inspired word of God • Christ’s death on the cross was a historical event necessary for salvation • Christians must express their faith through social action/evangelism

  5. Evangelicalism conceived in rigid social or political categories Seen as a politicised religion, linked to conflict and boundary maintenance Change to be expected in response to devolution Evangelicalism & Macro Politics

  6. Micro-level Evangelicalism Evangelicalism as a subculture based on beliefs as well as social relationships and networks. Potential for subcultural resources to prompt change.

  7. Findings: A Distinct Subculture Some important intertwining of religion & politics, but five other significant ‘subcultural tools’

  8. Centrality of ‘conversion’ ye must be born again!

  9. Supernaturalism Supernaturalism, attributing agency to God (often rather than to self)

  10. Existential Questions Predominance of existential questions (including fear of hell, meaning of life)

  11. The Advocate The importance of the ‘advocate’

  12. Devotional life and practice (prayer meetings, daily bible readings, networks) Everyday Life

  13. Importance? As evangelicals negotiate social & political change, they don’t just react to macro political changes or simply draw on the religio-political ideas and resources that have been emphasised in the academic literature. They have a much greater religious repertoire for ‘making sense’ of change.

  14. Privatising Moderating Transforming Trajectories of Change

  15. Trajectories of Change • Converting • Conserving • Exiting

  16. Conclusions: Evangelicalism in a Plural Public Sphere

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