Disruptive Youth: Toward an Ethnographic Turn in Youth Ministry

This article explores the problem of youth from the multidisciplinary viewpoints of Youth Ministry and Childhood Studies, arguing that while Youth Ministry has been limited by paradigms of developmentalism and hampered by theological essentialism, theories of childhood as a social construct and chil...

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Опубликовано в: :Ecclesial practices
Главные авторы: Raffety, Erin (Автор) ; Ellis, Wesley W. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2017
В: Ecclesial practices
Индексация IxTheo:NBE Антропология
RF Катехитика
ZB Социология
ZD Психология
Другие ключевые слова:B Youth Ministry childhood studies developmental psychology anthropology ethnographic turn theological turn field of defamiliarisation disruption
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Итог:This article explores the problem of youth from the multidisciplinary viewpoints of Youth Ministry and Childhood Studies, arguing that while Youth Ministry has been limited by paradigms of developmentalism and hampered by theological essentialism, theories of childhood as a social construct and children as social actors in Childhood Studies have yet to penetrate Youth Ministry or influence society. Anticipating the potential for Youth Ministry to serve as a field for new concepts of youth, the authors posit that an ‘ethnographic turn,’ or an ethical re-orientation toward the ‘Other-ness’ of youth might allow adults to be powerfully ‘disrupted’ by God’s action in youth in the world. As such, an ‘ethnographic turn’ in Youth Ministry serves both to complement the ‘theological turn’ by providing a practical method for accessing youth experience in relationship and to critically refine Childhood Studies’ theory of child agency and failure to effect contemporary society.
ISSN:2214-4471
Второстепенные работы:In: Ecclesial practices
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00401006