英文摘要 |
This paper applies the theory of self-identification to analyze the similarities found in the narratives of four Catholic female informants regarding their self-identify. It hence focuses on religious identity which it views as the outcome of the believer's dialectical interactions with others, with the community and with culture. The discussion further depicts three kinds of identification: with one's cultural/ethnic group, with the role of motherhood, and with one's religious affiliation. Finally, the paper retains that given the boundary context wherein the process takes place, given the complex and different worldviews and norms at play, building up a religious self-identity requires a higher perspective rooted in and sustained by an understood, realized and reflected upon experience of the symbols of the Holy and the cosmic order. |