The Effect of Cultural Capital of Families on Youth Religious Identity

Mohammadrezaie, Elahe; Gholizadeh, Azar; Aghaei, Asghar; Toghyani, Majid

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.335

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“…Young people are often neglected when it comes to ministry, in most churches they are only seen in the music ministry. Crouch [37] encourages that our youth groups should serve as a training ground for service in ministry. Young people should be encouraged to take on certain service projects in the church from time to time as individuals and as a group.…”

Section: Ministry Skills -Pastoral Care Preaching and Counselingmentioning

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Transforming Youth Ministry Higher Education in Kenya: A Practical Theological Approach

Chiroma

Muriithi

2019

JESBS

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Youth ministry in Kenya is evolving. In the Presbyterian churches in Kenya for instance, new positions for full time youth workers show the increasing emphasis on youth work. However, youth workers in many of the Kenyan churches have not been trained in youth work. If trained, the curriculum of the institutions of training reveals a lacuna in a practical theological approach to youth work. This article argues that effective youth work lies at the nexus of theory, reflection and praxis, hence higher educational institutions and seminaries, in particular, must reconsider youth ministry education curriculum to meet the current state and need of youth in Africa. Using a desk study, this paper reviewed relevant literature regarding youth ministry in Higher education. Although Africa is seen as a young continent, yet many educational institutions lack curriculum that is contextualized for youth ministry. The practical theological approach of Richard Osmer is utilized in this paper by looking at what is happening, that is, the lacuna in youth work curriculum; the literature reveals that even though some form of training is happening, there is a need to further standardize the curriculum to include key courses that are crucial in youth ministry; the interpretive paradigm of “why” considers western approaches in classical theology that entrench youth marginalization in Africa; the study find out that most of the literature in youth ministry are written from a western perspective with only few African authors, the normative question, that is, “what ought to happen” considers a biblical-theology of youth work from various literature and some South African institutions and the pragmatic question, that is, “the how”, proposes Pan Africa Christian University as a model Kenyan institution that is transforming youth ministry education in Kenya through the various programs they offer in youth ministry.

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Section: Ministry Skills -Pastoral Care Preaching and Counselingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Youth Ministry Higher Education in Kenya: A Practical Theological Approach

Chiroma

Muriithi

2019

JESBS

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“…In addition, social support and social circles, media, and peer groups are also important social factors (Evolvi 2021;Zhang and Chang 2017;Roberts et al 2001). Family background, family education, and family religious traditions and practices have a profound impact on Generation Z's attitudes and choices towards beliefs (Goodman and Justin 2020;Huang 2013;Walker 2019;Mohammadrezaie et al 2011;Ozdikmenli-Demir and Şahin-Kutuk 2012). Different national cultures, regional cultures, traditional beliefs, and religious cultural heritage may also play a role in the formation and selection of religious beliefs (Yue 2017;Lavrič and Flere 2010).…”

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Resonance or Alienation: An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Religious Belief Choices among China’s Generation Z

Chen,

Zeng,

Tian

2023

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The relationship between secularity or modernity and religious belief choices is a hot topic of academic concern. However, there has been scarce attention from the academic community regarding the religious belief choices and driving factors of China’s Generation Z, who have grown up in a secular or modern society. In this paper, we use the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) and a modified Cost and Rewards Scale to measure this group’s tendency towards “religious centrality”, and investigate the inherent driving factors using logistic regression. The results show that the religiousness of China’s Generation Z is higher than the overall level of religious beliefs in China. Their choice of religious beliefs is the result of a rational consideration and balance of “religious rewards”, but most of them are not driven by the consideration of “afterlife rewards” as the supernatural core factor of religion. Instead, they are driven by the actual benefits brought by the choice of religious beliefs and the factors that affect these benefits, such as religious socialization. This conclusion validates the opinions of Stark and Finke, as well as Hartmut Rosa, and breaks the status quo of single research model and method in previous relevant studies.

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The Effect of Cultural Capital of Families on Youth Religious Identity

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Transforming Youth Ministry Higher Education in Kenya: A Practical Theological Approach

Transforming Youth Ministry Higher Education in Kenya: A Practical Theological Approach

Resonance or Alienation: An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Religious Belief Choices among China’s Generation Z

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