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Migrant subjectivity and discursive Catholicism Migrant subjectivity and discursive Catholicism
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Fealty to faith and family: belief, belonging and discursive Catholicism Fealty to faith and family: belief, belonging and discursive Catholicism
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Questioning ‘the simple faith’: contestation, counter-memory and the reworking of religious selfhoods Questioning ‘the simple faith’: contestation, counter-memory and the reworking of religious selfhoods
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Deconstructing the pious generation: memory, myth and religious change Deconstructing the pious generation: memory, myth and religious change
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4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England
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Published:April 2020
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While recent commemorative histories mythologise fervent devotion to the faith as a distinctive attribute of the post-war migrant experience, catholic observers at the time feared migrants were ‘falling away from the church’. This chapter explores the changing place of religion in migrants’ lives in England and the complex agency of catholic ideals in shaping religious selfhoods over the migration journey. Where contemporary observers feared the secularising effects of urban culture upon migrants, the chapter shows how continuity and change articulated simultaneously within the evolution of migrants’ religious identities. Regulatory religious ideals offered some migrants a model of virtuous and socially respectable settlement in which they could recognize aspects of their own fears, ambitions and aspirations, while other, often later migrants, drew on a public critique of clerical power to narrate a story of renunciation and personal transformation. Irrespective, however, of whether or not individuals embraced or derogated their religious heritage, narratives of religious change always registered disavowal as an ambivalent process, involving the management of conflicting desires for autonomy from and conformity to deeply internalised religious prohibitions.
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