Abstract
In a highly secularized context such as Belgium, the decline of religious orthodoxies and the development of conceptions of a cyclic afterlife, especially among young people, raises issues for contemporary religious and symbolic dynamics. The structural analysis of 35 semi-structured interviews of young French-speaking men and women from various social strata in Wallonia and Brussels leads the author to define four types of life-after-death symbolism, each type including a variable number of modes. Inviting a critical dialogue with Karel Dobbelaere’s theory of secularization, Danièle Hervieu-Léger’s sociology of ‘religious modernity’ and Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, the potential and limits of the author’s contribution claim to be within the scope of contemporary debates in the sociology of culture and religion.
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