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This book explores what it means to be and become-at-home in
theological perspective, located in the context of a youth club.
Drawing on ethnographic research, Phoebe Hill presents an account
of what an authentic Christian hospitality could look like in a
youth setting, and the ways in which the young people - the
strangers at the door - might enable the Christian youth worker to
become more fully at home. Discourses around Christian hospitality
often unwittingly perpetuate implicit power imbalances. The youth
club offers a context for Christian hospitality that 'tips' the
power in favour of the young people who attend, enabling the youth
leaders to share and create home with young people in a distinctive
way. As young people leave the Church in droves, the Church faces
the urgent and daunting task of finding new ways of being with
young people on their own terms; this book offers one solution.
Hill argues that homecoming is an essential task of humanity. We
are connected in this common pilgrimage and the need to find places
and spaces where we can be at home. Becoming at home may be harder
than ever before; numerous sociological, philosophical and
theological factors are compromising our ability to dwell in the
contemporary world.
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