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College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics

By Jennifer Beste

College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics Religion & Esotericism

College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics

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Today's Christian adolescents and young adults have grown up with fiercely competing narratives about sex, relationships, and fulfillment. Within a Christian world of church services and formal religious education, they have been warned repeatedly about the dangers (or sinfulness) of premarital sex. At the same time, popular culture has inundated them with a very different message: casual sex is fun, thrilling, expected, and no big deal. Jennifer Beste calls into question the widespread assumption that the media's narrative of sex is positively liberating, while a Christian theological account is repressive, sex-negative, and altogether irrelevant. Her argument is based on a qualitative analysis of college students' own accounts of their social and sexual culture. She draws on the reflections of 126 undergraduate students who set out as sober ethnographers to observe and analyze peers at college parties. Overwhelmingly, undergraduates' perspectives challenge a neutral or even benevolent view of hookup culture embraced by some sociologists, "sex-positive" feminists, and popular culture in general. Beste goes on to share her own and her students' theological and ethical reflections as they explored the intersection between their social reality, the Christian tradition, and other academic disciplines, and sought to discern more deeply: what it means to become fully human; what constitutes happiness and fulfillment; and how to envision and create more socially and sexually just communities.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
376
Release Date:
2017-12-01
Publication Date:
2017-12-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190268506
ISBN13:
9780190268503
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
797 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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