Jennifer Beste

College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics (eBook, PDF)

The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190268510
• Artikelnr.: 54567324

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Beste is Professor of Theology and holds the Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, MN. She is the author of God and the Victim: Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her research interests include trauma theory and Christian theology; ethnography and Christian ethics; sexual ethics; feminist ethics; and children, justice, and Catholicism.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* PART I: Through Their Own Eyes: Undergraduate Ethnographies and
Analyses of Party Culture
* 1. College Students' Observations of Parties and Hookups
* 2. Why College Students Act the Way They Do
* 3. Power Dynamics at College Parties
* 4. Are College Students Happy in Contemporary Party Culture?
* PART II: Johann Metz's Jesus as Fully Human: Embracing Poverty of
Spirit
* 5. Embracing Our Interdependence on God and Others
* 6. Self-Love: Accepting Our Human Condition and Unique Calling
* 7. Neighbor-Love and Justice
* PART III: Sexual Justice: A Call to Action
* 8. Justly Relating to Self and Other in College Culture
* 9. Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Assault and its Traumatic
Effects
* 10. Secondary Victimization: The Community's Role in Traumatization
* 11. Creating a Sexually Just Campus Culture
* Endnotes
* Bibliography
* Appendix: Research Methodology