Blur
eBook - ePub

Blur

A New Paradigm for Understanding Youth Culture

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Blur

A New Paradigm for Understanding Youth Culture

About this book

BETTER INFORMED,
BETTER EQUIPPED TO MINISTER

to today's blurred youth culture

Mobile. Connected. Wired in. This is a generation that skips over perceived cultural boundaries and resists definition. They are a mash-up of identity, a blur of old categories and classes. Creators and consumers of a rapidly changing culture.

But how does one reach a demographic that is so difficult to pin down?

Many of the most popular approaches to youth ministry today begin by portraying youth as collections of fixed snapshots, "profiles" based on sociological research studies. Yet according to Dr. Jeff Keuss, today's teens cannot be adequately characterized by these simplistic and static descriptions. Keuss argues that what is needed, instead, is a qualitative approach to describing young people, one that recognizes the "blurred" nature of today's mobile youth culture.

Jeff Keuss presents an optimistic new way of thinking about youth, one that sees them more holistically and less clinically. As we learn to see youth culture through this new lens, we will become better informed and better equipped to minister to the teens of today's rapidly changing world.

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Information

Publisher
Zondervan
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780310514855
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Ministry

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: A Tale of Two Williams
  6. Chapter 1: Blurring Definitions: Learning to Meet Youth Where They Are
  7. Chapter 2: Blurring Culture(s): Accelerated Cultures and Faith Formation Through Conviction, Character, and Community
  8. Chapter 3: Blurring Faith: From Moral Therapeutic Deism to Sacredly Mobile Faith
  9. Chapter 4: Scripture and Blurring Faith: Seeing Youth As Jesus Didā€”A Close Reading of Scripture and Jesusā€™ Encounters With Youth
  10. Chapter 5: Blurring Youth: What the Sacredly Mobile Adolescent, Globalization, and Social Media Are Showing Us About the Future
  11. Chapter 6: Blurring the Self: Biography As Theology and Augustineā€™s Confessions As a Road Map for Identity Formation In a Constantly Moving Culture
  12. Chapter 7: Blurring Texts: Direction, Release, and Integration In Literature from Narnia to Twilight to the Hunger Games
  13. Chapter 8: Blurring Images: Coming of Age In Transformative Videos and Films
  14. Chapter 9: Blurring Sound: The Rise of the Sonic Mystic In Youth Culture
  15. Postlude: Of Burning Ships and Singing New Songs
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Bibliography