Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mullins, Matthew

Titel

Exvangelical (De)conversion Narratives and the Religious Politics of Spiritual Autobiography

Ist Teil von

• Biography (Honolulu), 2023-03, Vol.46 (2), p.249-268

Ort / Verlag

University of Hawai'i Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Scholars and pundits have devoted significant attention to the rise of the religiously unaffiliated in the United States in recent years. Within that demographic there are many former evangelical Christians who remain Christian but are no longer evangelical or have abandoned Christianity altogether. Many of these former evangelical Christians identify as exvangelicals . This essay analyzes autobiographies written by exvangelicals, and argues that their narratives of deconversion can best be understood in the generic tradition of the conversion narrative. When situated in this generic context, these exvangelical autobiographies testify to a crisis in twenty-first-century religious politics that mirrors similar tensions in the past and suggests the US is in a period of civic transition.