Changing Shape

The Faith Lives of Millennials

Ruth Perrin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2020
SCM Press (Verlag)
978-0-334-05831-1 (ISBN)

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The generation known as ‘millennials’ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the ‘missing generation’.

Ruth Perrin’s landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently “lost generation” – those who have lost faith altogether, those with a faith but who have withdrawn from the church and those with an ongoing active faith which is nonetheless now broader and deeper than previously.

Considering the factors which help shape millennial belief, Changing Shape reflects on the challenges and opportunities that ‘missing generation’ bring to the Church, and considers what lessons the Church can learn from the Millennial mindset.

Ruth Perrin is Leech Research Fellow at Durham University. In addition to her research interests she is also a tutor on the Cranmer Free Church Track, associate staff at King’s Church Durham and a trainer in Christian leadership. She has 20 years ministry experience primarily (though not exclusively) with students and young adults. She appears regularly at New Wine national and regional events

Introduction: Millennial Faith in Britain ix

Part 1 Setting the Scene – Being an Emerging Adult
1 Bucking the Trend: Emerging Adults Who Resist the Secularization Narrative 3
2 The Privilege and Pressure of Emerging Adulthood: Economics and Health 26
3 Relational Realities: Friends and Family 61
4 Relational Realities: Romance and Parenthood 81

Part 2 Changing Shape – How Emerging Adult Faith Develops
5 Emerging into Adult Faith: What Shapes Millennial Belief? 121
6 Losing Faith: ‘I Don’t Call Myself a Christian Anymore’ 156
7 The Disenchanted 176
8 Reshaped Faith 205

Conclusion
9 What Now? 233
Bibliography and Further Reading 248
Index of Names and Subjects 251

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	0-334-05831-7 / 0334058317
ISBN-13	978-0-334-05831-1 / 9780334058311
Zustand	Neuware