Med troen som f llesn vner – f llesskab blandt unge i Indre Mission

Artiklen vil belyse de mekanismer, der ligger til grund for et velfungerende f llesskab i en af Indre Missions ungdomsforeninger i rhus. Troen har p forskellige m der en central position i f llesskabet, og denne artikel vil argumentere for de unges tro som en social identitet, idet deres habitus synes at have en afg rende betydning for den og deres oplevelse af det religi st funderede f llesskab. Artiklenvil ogs belyse, hvordan Biblen og dens fort llinger udg r den fortolkningsramme, som de unge er opvokset med og forst r livet igennem. Artiklen viser desuden den rolle, det kollektive samv r spiller i de unges konstruktion af Gud og egen identitet som kristen. Faith as common ground- community feeling among young evangelicals in Denmark The aim of this article is to demonstrate the mechanisms that underlie a youth association in the so-called Home Mission, a branch of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. It is the result of anthropological research focusing on the sense of community among members aged between 15 and 27. In a number of ways faith plays a central role in the community, and the main argument of the article is that the young people's faith constitutes a social identity, since their habitus seems to have a decisive impact on their experience of the faith-based community. The article further demonstrates how the Bible and its narratives form the framework of interpretation with which the young people have grown up, and which, in their present life as adults, continues to mould their understanding and view of life, as well as the role that collective interaction plays in the young people's construction of God and their own identity as Christians. A core argument in the article is that faith is a socialization into a structure which results in all participants having the same frame of reference and therefore experiencing a strong feeling of community with one another within this particular wing of the Church of Denmark.