Research in youth ministry has excelled and developed rapidly over the last four decades.
Youth ministry is not just a church practice, but has become an emerging academic …

This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of
contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with …

Because learning is an important concept in the reflection on young people in faith practices,
practical theological studies on the theme of learning profit from a clarification of the concept …

Recent decades have seen the emergence of the popular missional 'church-in-the-
neighbourhood'discourse in churches and among individual Christians in the West. It …

Drawing on fieldwork with young Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians involved in the
secular punk rock subculture, this article examines strategies for building respectful …

How can religious learning-processes found in the missionary context of youth work and the
guidance of these learning processes be understood religious-pedagogically? To answer …

This article questions the implications of tribal forms of religious socialization for (religious)
schools' and communities' contributions to the religious formation of Christian youth. It …

In a qualitative empirical research project on youth worship, we discovered that'being
together'is primary quality of youth worship. This primary quality consists of at least four …

This article investigates which theoretical notions of faith learning can support the integration
of church catechesis with parental involvement in faith formation. Based on a discussion of …

This article describes how communal aspects of faith find their way back into the lives of
adolescents. The communal aspects of faith within individualized societies need more …