Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10051
The decline in numbers of young people in a once vibrant local parish prompted the same Church authorities to reach out to discover how it could render itself more relevant. It is the purpose of this paper to discover what matters to the young in their spiritual lives, to respond with a relevant young people provision. Semi-structured in-depth online interviews were held with six young people. The study informs the readers that young people have become disenchanted from religion despite their catholic upbringing and how young people have turned to their own ways of dealing with the current culture. The study suggests for the church to provide a safer environment, and a more modern approach for young people to learn about the faith. The study will suggest further pathways for dialogue with non-attending young people in a local parish.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10048
Christians are increasingly choosing to leave the church during the period of young adulthood. This trend suggests that there are shortcomings in our practices of religious education and faith formation. Here I propose that the practice of theological reflection is a method that can be employed to address some of these shortcomings. The article connects trends of religious disaffiliation with psychological theories of identity formation and self-determination that shed light on the internal changes leading young people away from religion. Theological reflection, the process of examining one’s experience through the lens of religious teachings, is a common practice in the formation of Church ministers and has potential to also benefit the faith formation of adolescents. With consideration of the psychological patterns related to disaffiliation, I demonstrate ways that theological reflection can foster a Christian identity in students that has an enduring impact on the lives of adolescents and young adults.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1163/24055093-21020001
David F. White
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10040
B. Norheim
The feeling of boredom during a speech is not a new phenomenon, but in a late modern information society this challenge is intensified. This article explores what sort of rhetorical opening strategy which may ‘charge’ a sermon with an appropriate suspense to help the congregation to remain attentive throughout the sermon. The article analyses a selective, digital sample of video recorded confirmation sermons from Church of Norway confirmation services in 2020. Drawing on theories on suspense, attention, and boredom, the article uses classical rhetorical theory on the different styles of speech to suggest three possible rhetorical opening strategies for a preacher who wants to ‘charge’ a (confirmation) sermon with a relevant suspense, that of the teacher, the poet, and the prophet.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10037
Anita Cloete
The article wishes to explore the theological significance of Hip Hop as an everyday practice of resistance that warrants practical-theological reflection. The first section provides a short background of how Hip Hop came into existence and highlights its core elements, like the role of memory, resistance, social analysis, and critique in a local and global context. This is followed by an explanation of the practical-theological focus of the article. The second section offers a detailed discussion of the religious and theological value of Hip Hop, while the final section focuses on how this act of resistance provides a platform that could shape agency, especially among youth, and dissects the educational value of Hip Hop as cultural text. Considering the context and content of Hip hop, it is argued that it could be instrumental in being a voice for the voiceless and marginalised as an essential aspect of popular culture in contexts like South Africa and Brazil.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10036
Knut Alfsvåg
The relation between baptism, chrismation, and first communion has developed differently in different denominations. An important characteristic of this development is the establishment of confirmation as a separate rite during medieval times. Despite Luther’s being skeptical toward confirmation, which he considered a human invention with Semipelagian connotations, it was adopted for catechetical purposes by Martin Bucer, partly as a compromising gesture toward the Anabaptists. Today, confirmation is a well-established rite of passage with a theologically complicated history administered within a context where a new awareness of the rites of initiation in the early church has opened old debates concerning chrismation, confirmation, and the communion of infants. The article investigates how a knowledge of this history can help us develop an ecumenically relevant theology of confirmation and catechesis carried by a strong understanding of baptism as the undisputed rite of Christian initiation.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10041
Tabita Landová
The study deals with the religiosity and spirituality of contemporary Czech youth. Czech Republic is characterized by a high level of secularization. Are the expectations that religious faith will increasingly disappear in each generation coming true? How do Czech practical theologians reflect on the current situation? The study explores these questions against a background of generational theory and religious sociology. It has four parts. First, it introduces Mannheim’s theory of generations and applies it to the setting of Christian churches. In the second part, it characterizes the current Czech generation of youth with the help of generational typologies. In the third part, it presents the religiosity and spirituality of Czech youth based on recent sociological research. In the fourth part, it focuses on how Czech Catholic and Protestant theologians reflect on youth-work. The conclusion offers practical-theological suggestions that are relevant for pastoral work with youth in secularized contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10038
Adolphus Ekedimma Amaefule
Like many places in Africa, youth unemployment in Nigeria is massive. Granted, some scholars have deliberated on the role of the Church in Nigeria in tackling it; their preoccupation, however, has been majorly with the Church in Nigeria as a whole, rather than with individual churches. Employing historical and descriptive phenomenological methodology, this article, on the contrary, considers the role of the Roman Catholic Church in South-East Nigeria, in the fight against the same issue, of youth unemployment. The article, among others, makes a case for a much more participation of faith-based organizations in confronting the many social problems facing the youths in contemporary Africa.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10039
V. Mrio
Jesus’ concern for children was evident in his ministry in an episode when he rebuked the disciples who scolded them (Luke 18:15–17). This article considers why Jesus cared for and safeguarded little children in his mission. The Church in Africa as a steward of the kingdom of God has to review its methods of caring for and protecting children. The contribution of the article will be to urge the Church in Africa to take more seriously its concern for children. The methodological approach engages qualitative thought with quantitative research into critical findings from particular churches.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10035
Leslie J. Francis, Bruce G. Fawcett, Ursula Mckenna
A sample of 299 young people between the ages of 12 and 18 attending a week-long summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada completed the Adolescent form of the Francis Psychological Type Scales together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The data demonstrated that a more positive attitude toward Christianity was associated with a preference for feeling (rather than thinking) and with a preference for judging (rather than perceiving), and that retention rates were lower for extraverts and for intuitive types. The article concludes by recommending psychological type awareness courses within youth ministry training programmes to enhance understanding attrition and retention of young people within Christian activities.
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