Die invloed van sekularisasie op die NG Kerk : 'n kerkhistories-sosiologiese perspektief

dc.contributor.authorKruger, Pieter
dc.contributor.authorVan der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-20T07:59:26Z
dc.date.available2015-02-20T07:59:26Z
dc.date.issued2014-09
dc.description.abstractThe influence of religious discourses and institutions in South Africa, as elsewhere, diminishes because of structural secularisation. Social secularisation as another form of secularisation compromises the 'necessity’ for religion in modern day social culture. Humanistic Western Individualism is the dominant social meaning system (also in South Africa) best associated with this process. Th e actualisation of its priorities (personal freedom, privacy, emancipation of the self, freedom of choice and to strive for personal affluence) plays a significant role in the lives of the Dutch Reformed Church’s congregants. Social secularisation liberates people from ecclesiastical doctrine as regulatory for personal life and reason and marks the growing indifference to the official church. Th is leads to a legitimacy crisis concerning established religious meaning systems. Ironically religion doesn’t disappear altogether because of secularisation. It does however, transposes traditional forms of collective religion because the sustainment of religion as phenomenon depends increasingly on religiosities in the private sphere. Consequently, the proliferation of different personal, religious beliefs and practices also increases religious pluralism within the Dutch Reformed Church, challenging its reformed identity.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://ngtt.journals.ac.za/en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKruger, P & Van der Merwe, J 2014, 'Die invloed van sekularisasie op die NG Kerk : ’n kerkhistories-sosiologiese perspektief', Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, vol. 55, no. 3 & 4, pp. 641-668.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0028-2006 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2226-2385 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/43739
dc.language.isoAfrikaansen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Theology, Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights2014 © PIETER DE WAAL NEETHLING TRUSTen_ZA
dc.subjectSosiale konstruksie,en_ZA
dc.subjectReligieuse konstruksieen_ZA
dc.subjectStrukturele sekularisasieen_ZA
dc.subjectSekularisering van sosiale kultuuren_ZA
dc.subjectSekularisering van persoonlike bewussynen_ZA
dc.subjectPrivatisering van religieen_ZA
dc.subjectOmvorming van religieen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial constructionen_ZA
dc.subjectStructural secularizationen_ZA
dc.subjectReligious constructionen_ZA
dc.subjectSecularization of social cultureen_ZA
dc.subjectSecularization of personalen_ZA
dc.subjectPrivatization of religionen_ZA
dc.subjectTransposition of religionen_ZA
dc.titleDie invloed van sekularisasie op die NG Kerk : 'n kerkhistories-sosiologiese perspektiefen_ZA
dc.title.alternativeThe influence of secularisation on the DR Church : a church historical and sociological perspectiveen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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