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Becoming Evangelical : Life and Liminalities in Christian Youth Groups.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barward-Symmons, Rob.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- An ethnographic study exploring the formation practices of a British evangelical youth group through the lens of ritual and rites of passage theories.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The youth group in the huts
- About this book
- Background: Evangelical youth work, transformation and me
- Life at St Aidan's
- Ethnographic research
- Rites of passage and the formation of the religious subject in adolescence
- Outline of the book
- 1 Separation and sacred space
- The hidden hut
- Separated, inside and out
- A room of their own: The creation of liminal space
- Conclusion: Space for liminality
- 2 Negotiating separation in secular society
- 'In, but not Of' - Distinctiveness and the evangelical life
- Interlinking liminalities
- 'Ambassadors for Christ' - External separation in PM
- The desire for quiet acceptance
- Conclusion: Separation, relationship and overlapping liminalities
- 3 Faith formation among friends: Peers and communitas
- 'Friends and influences'
- 'Here, relationships are just as important as worship or teaching' - Sociality and institutional intentions
- Perspectives of PM members
- Conclusion: Friendship and faith
- 4 Pedagogy and practices of uncertainty in PM
- A session on sex
- Certainty and doubt in evangelicalism
- Liminality, non-conformity and peaceful uncertainty
- Conclusion: The inevitable impermanence of acceptable uncertainty
- 5 Life beyond the incomplete ritual
- The final night of PM
- Lingering liminality: Evangelical life beyond the youth group
- Adolescent and post-adolescent evangelicalism
- Conclusion: Liminality beyond community
- Conclusion
- The hidden rite of passage
- The adolescent evangelical subject
- Placing adolescent evangelicals in the sociology of evangelicalism
- Implications and applications
- Beyond transformation: Life and liminality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-53251-7
- 1-350-53247-9
- 1-350-53249-5
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