Evangelical Youth Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evangelical Youth Culture write by Ibrahim Abraham. This book was released on 2017-10-19. Evangelical Youth Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with punk, hip hop, surfing, and skateboarding. Ibrahim Abraham draws on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of musicians and sports enthusiasts in the USA, UK, Australia, and South Africa, and the analysis of evangelical subcultural media including music, film, and extreme sports Bibles. Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures makes innovative use of multiple theories of youth cultures and subcultures from sociology and cultural studies, and introduces the "serious leisure perspective" to the study of religion, youth, and popular culture. Engaging with the experiences of Pentecostal punks, surfing missionaries, township rappers, and skateboarding youth pastors, this book makes an original contribution to the sociology of religion, youth studies, and the study of religion and popular culture.
Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture
Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture write by Walt Mueller. This book was released on 2009-09-20. Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before we can reach today's youth with the turth of the gospel, we need to see what they see and hear what they hear. We need to catch the messages encrypted in their culture and understand what's really being communicated. In Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture Walt Mueller, founder and president of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding, helps us to navigate the troubling and confusing terrain of teen worldviews so that we can effectively and compassionately pass along good news: our God is their God, our Savior can be their Savior.
Righteous
Righteous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Righteous write by Lauren Sandler. This book was released on 2007-08-28. Righteous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illuminating, often troubling, and unapologetically frank, Righteous is dynamic young journalist Lauren Sandler's report from the nexus of religious fundamentalism and youth culture. As a secular guide through the passion and politics of the teenage evangelical "Disciple Generation," Sandler offers the first front line exploration of the Christian youth counterculture and what its influence could mean for the future of America. She intimately connects with skateboarding missionaries, tattooed members of a self-sufficient postpunk mega- church, rock- 'n'-rolling antiabortion protestors, and rap preachers who merge hip-hop's love of money with old- fashioned Bible-beating fundamentalism-true believers who reveal themselves with openness and truly astonishing candor, but what they reveal about our nation is most astonishing of all.
The Juvenilization of American Christianity
The Juvenilization of American Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Juvenilization of American Christianity write by Thomas Bergler. This book was released on 2012-04-20. The Juvenilization of American Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened? In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into four major American church traditions -- African American, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Bergler shows too how this "juvenilization" of churches has led to widespread spiritual immaturity, consumerism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy. Bergler s critique further offers constructive suggestions for taming juvenilization. Watch the trailer:
Youth Ministry
Youth Ministry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth Ministry write by Lawrence O. Richards. This book was released on 1990-12-19. Youth Ministry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding youth culture in a particular time and place is one of the foundation stones upon which youth leaders build a youth ministry. Christian education, according to Richards, is the teaching and learning of Christian faith as culture--the reshaping of personalities into the image of Christ. The thesis of this book is that youth ministry must be viewed as youth and adults involved together in Scripture, in a body-of-Christ relationship, and in life. Richards shows what is involved in each of these elements as well as how to organize and program a ministry that, through such involvement, will lead young people to Christian maturity.
