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Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures

Autor Ibrahim Abraham
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 oct 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350020320
ISBN-10: 135002032X
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 16 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers the first sociological analysis of Evangelical engagement with, and participation in, 'extreme' or 'alternative' sports

Notă biografică

Ibrahim Abraham is Postdoctoral Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1.Evangelical Christianity and youth subculture theory2.Christian punk in an age of authenticity 3.Postsecular punk: Christianity's contested inclusion in alternative music scenes4.Evangelical extreme sports subcultures and youth development ministry5.Serious leisure and salvation anxiety in Evangelical youth culture6.Fear of a black magic: Evangelical opposition to alternative youth cultureConclusionReferencesIndex

Recenzii

Probably the smartest book I've seen on the topic of evangelical Christian youth culture, and easily the most global in scope. Grounded in state-of-the-art social science and cultural studies methods, based on research and interviews conducted on four continents, this study probes the complexly ambivalent relationships between Christian and secular subcultures devoted to popular music and extreme sports. No one interested in understanding contemporary youth culture, religious or otherwise, should miss this consistently insightful, rigorous, and witty book.
Offering a sharp critical lens on an impressive range of sociological and ethnographic research, Abraham provides smart insights on the complicated integration of evangelical Christianity into a variety of alternative scenes. This book is particularly valuable for its attention to global-local dynamics in processes of religious culture-making.
The author is providing a window onto a little understood part of youth culture. The book will be well received.
This book offers rich data, and demonstrates astute engagement with - and an original contribution to - debates on contemporary evangelicalism and contemporary Christianities, religion and popular culture, and religion and youth cultures.