Creativity, Religion and Youth Cultures

This book explores the intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. Culture-specific churches provide a safe if "imagined community" in which young people can express these emerging identities, which move beyond simple framings like "multicultural" to explicitly include faith practices.

List of contents

Introduction: About This Book
Section 1: Samoan Mediascapes and Faith-as-Performance
Section 1 Overview
1. Education and the Creative Imaginary
2. God Culture and the Capacity to In/Aspire
3. Semblance and Praisesong
Section 2: Religion, Art and a South Sudanese Post-National Imaginary
Section 2 Overview
4. Imagining New Individualities / New Collectivities
5. The Art of Gender in South Sudanese Mediated Diasporas
6. Meaning and "Madolescence"
Conclusion

About the author

Anne M. Harris is Senior Lecturer at Monash University, and researches in the areas of creativity, performance and diversity.

Summary

This book explores the intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. Culture-specific churches provide a safe if "imagined community" in which young people can express these emerging identities, which move beyond simple framings like "multicultural" to explicitly include faith practices.

Product details

• Authors: Anne M Harris, Anne M. Harris, Anne M. (Monash University Harris, Harris Anne M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367348083
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34808-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sudan, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Samoan Islands