ABSTRACT
Dual belongers claim to be deeply rooted in more than one tradition and therefore capable of moving back and forth with relative ease between two communities. These flexible believers are intent on doing justice to the self-understanding of both traditions. This chapter examines to what extent the phenomenon of dual belonging relates to the so-called spiritual revolution and how this impacts on the way dual belongers perceive of the ritual dimension of their complex religious life. How one assesses the phenomenon of dual belonging depends to a great extent on how one defines religion. A religious adherence is the result of a long process of socialisation, in which a person learns to speak a particular religious language and becomes acquainted with the religious knowledge transmitted by that tradition. The chapter asks how dual belongers negotiate their dual commitment and hypothesis that this negotiation is made possible by means of a spiritualisation of religion.
