Learning Religion: Exploring Young People's Participation Through Timespace and Mediation at Confirmation Camp

This article explores how material tools mediate affordances for and constraints on young people's participation in the religious practice of confirmation. Learning is understood as a process of participation in a religious practice in which most participants enter as subalterns. The material established by ethnographic fieldwork from two confirmation camps is analyzed, and the findings suggest that time and space as unified features played a significant role in opening up or closing off participation.