Unlike in other parts of the world, a vast majority of
all Dutch are secular.
After a temporary loss of spiritual enchantment and social embedding that came with the exodus of churches, many are now actively experimenting with new spiritual and social forms. Actually, half of the Dutch secularists are geared towards such experiments. Especially among the younger generations this goes full steam ahead.
These secularists don’t go to churches, synagogues, mosques or temples but meet through new media, dance, music, events, workshops, magazines, bookstores, fairs, conferences, training institutes and retreat centers, whereas yoga, meditation and mindfulness rapidly expand in society.
After a temporary loss of spiritual enchantment and social embedding that came with the exodus of churches, many are now actively experimenting with new spiritual and social forms. Actually, half of the Dutch secularists are geared towards such experiments. Especially among the younger generations this goes full steam ahead.
These secularists don’t go to churches, synagogues, mosques or temples but meet through new media, dance, music, events, workshops, magazines, bookstores, fairs, conferences, training institutes and retreat centers, whereas yoga, meditation and mindfulness rapidly expand in society.
Rejection or avoidance of new social
enchantment occurs mainly among the lower educated, the elderly. Because trade
unions, politicians, traditional newspapers and national television channels
are lagging behind they increasingly lose support.
But insurance companies repay costs for alternative
medicine. In universities, rationalist strongholds of old,
mindfulness can be openly discussed. And
the conservative world of football is busy adopting yoga.
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