Soul in the City - Mission as Package Holiday: The potential implications of a 'tourist' paradigm in youth mission
Soul in the City happened in the summer of 2004 in London. Its impact on the UK Christian youth scene has been wide and varied - some loved it; some hated it. It brought 9,000 young people to London to engage in 'mission'. But did it? Was it really just a Christian themed package holiday w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2006
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Journal of youth and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 63-83 |
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| Summary: | Soul in the City happened in the summer of 2004 in London. Its impact on the UK Christian youth scene has been wide and varied - some loved it; some hated it. It brought 9,000 young people to London to engage in 'mission'. But did it? Was it really just a Christian themed package holiday with mission as the main day trips? This paper draws on reflection from participation in the planning and running of Soul in the City (SITC) and textual analysis of publicity material. Whist primarily a theological reflection, significant use is made of sociological and anthropological thinking on 'tourism' to analyse phenomena observed in SITC. This assessment illustrates the emergence of a tourism motif in youth mission and highlights key missiological limitations and possibilities that this paradigm |
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| ISSN: | 2405-5093 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of youth and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24055093-90000151 |