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- Title
Youth Worship as Recreation.
- Authors
Sonnenberg, Ronelle; Barnard, Marcel
- Abstract
We search for a liturgical-ritual perspective that both describes the observed need for extraordinary or vital experiences in youth worship gatherings, and that explains these in relation to the communication between God and humankind. We argue, on the basis of our empirical study, that the concepts of 'recreation' and 'juxtaposition' are helpful in this regard. Four recreational dimensions are distinguished in youth worship: 'being free and informal', 'enjoying a stirring and silent atmosphere', 'exploring and actualizing the self' and 'recharging faith'. These are obviously present in crowded national youth events, but also in local youth worship gatherings. The concept of juxtaposition, as G. W. Lathrop uses it, is operationalized to describe and understand what transforms recreation into Christian recreation from the perspectives of the participants.
- Subjects
PREACHING to youth; TEENAGERS &; religion; LITURGICS; PRACTICAL theology; LATHROP, Gordon W.
- Publication
International Journal of Practical Theology, 2015, Vol 19, Issue 1, p138
- ISSN
1430-6921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijpt-2014-0024