Leaving religion as a letting go ritual: exploring the trajectories of meaning making in narratives about apostasy
Leaving religion as a letting go ritual: exploring the trajectories of meaning making in narratives about apostasy

Summary/Abstract: The present paper elaborates on the meaning-making processes of leaving the Roman CatholicChurch in Poland as indicated in the material coming from interviews and posts published on theFacebook group “Apostazja 2020”. Analysing biographical narratives concerning the experience ofapostasy, we are inquiring whether it betrays traces of a rite of passage. Briefly, we present apostasyas social and religious phenomena, but we draw particular attention to the state of Catholic religiosityin Poland. We are seeking an answer to the question whether the act of apostasy is a transformativeexperience, a liminal moment which affects a person’s sense of identity and opens a new phase in life.

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