ABSTRACT
I have suggested that the narratives of religious disaffi liation in this study may be viewed through multiple theoretical lenses; hence the third tier of analysis relies on another refraction through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin and his conception of the dialogic word. This analysis illustrates in an alternative yet parallel way how the participants establish their own version of the story and their persuasive positioning of a re-formed identity. Methodologically, I move back more towards the dialogical narrative approach, and philosophically build on the genealogy of resistance with the emergence of a new political spirituality. It is noted, moreover, that Bakhtin’s writings have been employed frequently in narrative research (Ball and Freedman, 2004, Josselson, 2011) and have often been read alongside contemporary poststructuralist theory (Vice, 1997: 3). Such a detour and bringing together of multiple lenses provides a creative magnifi cation of the data, providing further depth to the stories and voices of resistance already described.
