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College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics - The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults (Hardcover)
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College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics - The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults (Hardcover)
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In America, Christian adolescents and young adults have grown up
with fiercely competing narratives about sex, relationships, and
fulfillment. Within a Christian world of church services, formal
religious education, and retreats, they have been warned about the
dangers and sinfulness of premarital sex. All the while, popular
culture has inundated them with a very different message: casual
sex is fun, thrilling, expected, and no-big-deal. Popular culture's
influence is perhaps nowhere more evident than on college campuses
where hookups-casual sexual encounters devoid of commitment or
emotional attachment-have become the norm for emerging adults.
College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics engages 126 college
students as sober ethnographers whose task is to observe and
analyze their own complex social reality. Part I reveals students'
disillusionment with contemporary sexual and relational norms,
challenging benevolent or even neutral views of hookup culture.
Part II brings the students into conversation with Christianity's
counter-cultural narrative of what it means to become fully human
and experience genuine joy and fulfillment. The spokesperson for
this vision is theologian Johann Metz, whose portrait of Jesus
enduring his desert temptations and becoming fully human resonates
profoundly with today's college students. Comparing Jesus' way of
being in the world with their college culture's status quo, many
undergraduates discover in "poverty of spirit" a hopeful,
counter-cultural path to authenticity and happiness. Part III
culminates in a call to action. Students explore obstacles to
sexual justice on college campuses, identify key commitments
necessary for change, and envision how undergraduates can work to
create the college culture they truly desire and deserve.
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