Stepping Out: Narratives of Former Fundamentalist Christians

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Collins, Nathan

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2016

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18

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Religious marketplace research has focused on the relative success strict religious groups have had in maintaining their members. This paper looks at why this might be by focusing on individuals who leave these groups. Defectors from fundamentalist religious groups undergo an identity transformation process through which their understanding of the world and themselves is changed. This paper details this process using data gathered from interviews with former fundamentalist Christians. The defection process described here includes a series of stages leading up to a schism with the group.|Keywords: fundamentalism, identity, defection, transformation, Christianity, religious marketplace

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91846

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https://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/toc/2016.html

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Journal of Religion and Society